The Petrified Forest is a 1936 American film. A predecessor to film noir, it is adapted from Robert E. Sherwood's 1935 play of the same name. The screenplay is by Delmer Daves and Charles Kenyon; it stars Leslie Howard as Alan Squier, Bette Davis as Gabrielle "Gabby" Maple, and Humphrey Bogart in his career breakthrough role as Duke Mantee. The Petrified Forest was performed on live television in 1955 with Bogart, Henry Fonda, and Lauren Bacall, ...
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The Petrified Forest is a 1936 American film. A predecessor to film noir, it is adapted from Robert E. Sherwood's 1935 play of the same name. The screenplay is by Delmer Daves and Charles Kenyon; it stars Leslie Howard as Alan Squier, Bette Davis as Gabrielle "Gabby" Maple, and Humphrey Bogart in his career breakthrough role as Duke Mantee. The Petrified Forest was performed on live television in 1955 with Bogart, Henry Fonda, and Lauren Bacall, and CBS's radio Lux Radio Theater also featured it in 1937 (Herbert Marshall, Margaret Sullivan, Donald Meek) and 1945 (Ronald Coleman, Susan Hayward, Lawrence Tierney).
This 1930s drama is set in the Petrified Forest area in northern Arizona. Hitchhiker Alan Squier, who sees himself as a failed writer, wanders into a roadside diner. The diner is run by Jason Maple (Porter Hall), his daughter Gabby, and her grandfather (Charley Grapewin), "an old man who was missed by Billy the Kid."
Gabby's mother was a French war bride who fell in love with...
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