The Petrified Forest (1936)1h22
Crime · Drama · Romance · Thriller
Director Archie Mayo
Also directed A Night in Casablanca, Svengali, Black Legion, and 61 more
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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Cast
Leslie Howard
Bette Davis
Humphrey Bogart
Genevieve Tobin
Dick Foran
Porter Hall
Charley Grapewin
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