The Petrified Forest

19361936
PassedPassed
1h 22min

Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, and Leslie Howard in The Petrified Forest (1936)

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Crime Drama Romance

A waitress, a hobo and a bank robber get mixed up at a lonely diner in the desert.A waitress, a hobo and a bank robber get mixed up at a lonely diner in the desert.A waitress, a hobo and a bank robber get mixed up at a lonely diner in the desert.

Director
- Archie Mayo
Writers
- Charles Kenyon(screen play)
- Delmer Daves(screen play)
- Robert E. Sherwood(play)
Stars

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The Petrified Forest

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Bette Davis and Leslie Howard in The Petrified Forest (1936)

Bette Davis and Leslie Howard in The Petrified Forest (1936)

Humphrey Bogart and Genevieve Tobin in The Petrified Forest (1936)

Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, and Leslie Howard in The Petrified Forest (1936)

Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, and Dick Foran in The Petrified Forest (1936)

Humphrey Bogart and Leslie Howard in "The Petrified Forest," 1936 Warner Bros.

Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Paul Harvey, and Genevieve Tobin in The Petrified Forest (1936)

Humphrey Bogart, Arthur Aylesworth, George Guhl, Porter Hall, and Joe Sawyer in The Petrified Forest (1936)

Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, and Dick Foran in The Petrified Forest (1936)

Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Dick Foran, and Charley Grapewin in The Petrified Forest (1936)

Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Charley Grapewin, and Porter Hall in The Petrified Forest (1936)

Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, and Leslie Howard in The Petrified Forest (1936)

Director
- Archie Mayo
Writers
- Charles Kenyon(screen play)
- Delmer Daves(screen play)
- Robert E. Sherwood(play)
All cast & crew
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7.1

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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. —MarlicOne {imdb@motechnet.com}

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Taglines
- AGAIN THEY TRIUMPH!...The stars of 'Human Bondage' in a picture greater than the play!
Genres
Certificate
- Passed
Parents guide

Trivia
Leslie Howard and Humphrey Bogart had played the same roles in the stage version. Warner Bros. wanted to put Howard in the film but replace Bogart with Edward G. Robinson. Howard insisted on Bogart, sending a telegram to Jack L. Warner which read "Insist Bogart play Mantee; no Bogart, no deal." Bogart would later name his second child with Lauren Bacall Leslie, in honor of Howard, the man who gave him his first big break.

Goofs
Numerous saguaro cacti are visible in background shots. The saguaro grows only in the Sonoran Desert; the Petrified Forest is well north of the Sonoran Desert.

Quotes
Alan Squier: The trouble with me, Gabrielle, is I, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.
Gabrielle Maple: That, that means you've got brains!
Alan Squier: Hmmm. Yes. Brains without purpose. Noise without sound, shape without substance.

Connections
Edited into Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic (2012)

Soundtracks
I'd Rather Listen to Your Eyes
(1935) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren Lyrics by Al Dubin
Played on the radio

Top review

Perfect Classic

A glorious movie based on a very wise and compassionate play. It is a savage indictment of a lifeless civilization. Confronted by death in a hostage situation, one elderly wife bitterly reproaches her husband of having stifled her personality: "You took my soul, you stenciled it on a card and filed it". Leslie Howard gives up his quest for bliss, and seeks to die in style for his beloved. Bogart represents nature lashing out against man. Alas, few movies from the thirties achieve this height of artistry. Hollywood makes a mistake when drawing plots from novels rather than plays. The concentrated compactness and intimacy of a play cannot be had from a sprawling novel.

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Release date
- February 8, 1936 (United States)
Country of origin
- United States
Language
- English
Also known as
- Petrified Forest
Filming locations
- Red Rock Canyon State Park - Highway 14, Cantil, California, USA
Production company
- Warner Bros.
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Budget
- $500,000 (estimated)

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Runtime
- 1h 22min
Color
- Black and White
Sound mix
- Mono
Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1

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