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Petrified Forest (The)
- Director: Archie Mayo
- Writer: Charles Kenyon; Delmer Daves
- Producer: Hal B. Wallis
CGiii Comment
A truly terrible film - despite the presence of screen legends.
The script is pretentious banality, the set is formica and the acting is wooden.
As for CGiii, read what you want into Howard's character - it won't matter...the film is an illiterate mess and will make every feminist in the world vomit.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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.
Cast & Characters
Leslie Howard as Alan Squier;
Bette Davis as Gabrielle Maple;
Genevieve Tobin as Mrs. Chisholm;
Dick Foran as Boze Hertzlinger;
Humphrey Bogart as Duke Mantee;
Joe Sawyer as Jackie;
Porter Hall as Jason Maple;
Charley Grapewin as Gramp Maple;
Paul Harvey as Mr. Chisholm;
Eddie Acuff as Lineman;
Adrian Morris as Ruby;
Nina Campana as Paula;
Slim Thompson as Slim;
John Alexander as Joseph;
Arthur Aylesworth as Commander of the Black Horse Troupers