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The Petrified Forest (1936) 7.6
A waitress, a hobo and a bank robber get mixed up at a lonely diner in the desert. Director:Archie Mayo |
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Title: The Petrified Forest (1936)
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Cast
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Dick Foran | ... | |
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Joe Sawyer | ... |
Jackie
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Eddie Acuff | ... | |
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Adrian Morris | ... |
Ruby
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Nina Campana | ... |
Paula
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Slim Thompson | ... | |
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John Alexander | ... |
Joseph
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Plot Summary
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Plot Synopsis
Storyline
Gabby lives and works at her dads small diner out in the desert. She can't stand it and wants to go and live with her mother in France. Along comes Alan, a broke man with no will to live, who is traveling to see the pacific, and maybe to drown in it. Meanwhile Duke Mantee a notorious killer and his gang is heading towards the diner where Mantee plan on meeting up with his girl. Written by MarlicOne {imdb@motechnet.com}
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AGAIN THEY TRIUMPH!...The stars of 'Human Bondage' in a picture greater than the play!Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
8 February 1936 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Petrified Forest See more »Box Office
Budget:
$500,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Technical Specs
Runtime:
| (Turner library print)Sound Mix:
MonoColor:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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(1935) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
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Goofs
In the scene where the rich couple and their black servant return to the gas station, behind Bogart a window opens. The football jock flinches, the sound of the window hitting open is heard and that sound is repeated when the window actually opens shown by Bogart turning around. See more »Quotes
Jackie Cooper: Now, just behave yourself and nobody'll get hurt. This is Duke Mantee, the world-famous killer, and he's hungry!See more »
Soundtracks
"I'd Rather Listen to Your Eyes"(1935) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
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Who would be the best actor to play a failed writer, a romantic dreamer? Yeah, Leslie Howard seems to be a nice choice... And what if we take this pretty and young Bette Davis (before she becomes the best villain in the story of cinema) and make her play a rebel girl that's longing for a new life far away from that dusty Arizona hole she lives in? Lastly we give Humphrey Bogart the role of a bloodthirsty gangster that walks like a bulldog... Now that we have the perfect cast we just have to write a simple film-noir script, full of humor and with some touches of poetry and romanticism. That's it, a 80 minutes long wonder.
This is cinema, my friends. Quite a lesson of how to create characters and how to make a great movie with a few sets and with six or seven actors. "Petrified Forest" is 70 years old, but it'll remain magnificent for ever and ever.
*My rate: 9/10