The Petrified Forest(Movie, 1936)

Name: The Petrified Forest
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller
Released: 1936
Duration: T01:22:00
Rating: 3.6

| 1h 22min | Genres: Crime, Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller

Rating: 3.6/5 (with 80 votes)

The Petrified Forest is a 1936 American crime drama film directed by Archie Mayo and based on Robert E. Sherwood's 1934 drama of the same name. The motion picture stars Leslie Howard, Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart. The screenplay was written by Delmer Daves and Charles Kenyon, and adaptations were later performed on radio and television. The film is set in Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. According to Variety, Warner Bros. filmed two endings. Howard's character dies in one and survives in the other. In May 1945, Warner Bros. released another film based on Sherwood's play, Escape in the Desert. It pits a Dutch flyer walking across country to San Francisco and others against a bunch of escaped Nazi POWs. ()

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About The Petrified Forest

Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: Arizona

Made by: Warner Bros. Pictures

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 13 languages: Bulgarian (BG), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 02/08/1936

Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Genevieve Tobin, Dick Foran, Porter Hall, Charley Grapewin, Joe Sawyer, Paul Harvey, Gus Leonard, Arthur Aylesworth

Director: Archie Mayo

Producer: Hal B. Wallis

Screenwriter: Delmer Daves

Executive Producer: Hal B. Wallis

Film Editor: Owen Marks

Director of Photography: Sol Polito

Composer: Bernhard Kaun

Costume designer: Orry-Kelly

Production Designer: John Hughes

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"El bosque petrificado"

"A Floresta Petrificada"

Keywords: fugitive, arizona, françois villon, isolated place, hostage situation, drifter, aspiration, roadside diner, desert, kindred spirit, poetry recitation, gangster, film noir, based on play or musical, diner

Color: Black & White (B/W)

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