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The Petrified Forest
The Petrified Forest
Most famous, perhaps, for bringing to Humphrey Bogart his first draught of film prominence, The Petrified Forest is in fact quiet and tender and extraordinarily evocative of the loose-ended lives that the Great Depression wrought. It is a very fine film.
The script is by Charles Kenyon and future filmmaker Delmer Daves. The opening shot could not have been done on stage. It seemingly exists out of time and space while in fact locating and evoking a time and a place. In the early morning light, a man, a hobo, his back towards us, is silently walking down a dusty road in the middle of nowhere, a pack on his back, a long stick in his right hand. A tumbleweed crosses his path; both are more or less tumbleweeds, blown along either by wind or circumstance.
The Petrified Forest
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.
- Year:
- 1936
- Runtime:
- 82 minutes
- Language:
- English
- Director:
- Archie Mayo
- Screenwriter:
- Charles Kenyon, Delmer Daves
- Executive Producer:
- Hal B. Wallis
- Cast:
- Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart
- Cinematographer:
- Sol Polito
- Editor:
- Owen Marks
- Composer:
- Bernhard Kaun
This page is to obtain access to the broadcast of this Sands Films Cinema Club presentation
The Petrified Forest
The Petrified Forest
Most famous, perhaps, for bringing to Humphrey Bogart his first draught of film prominence, The Petrified Forest is in fact quiet and tender and extraordinarily evocative of the loose-ended lives that the Great Depression wrought. It is a very fine film.
The script is by Charles Kenyon and future filmmaker Delmer Daves. The opening shot could not have been done on stage. It seemingly exists out of time and space while in fact locating and evoking a time and a place. In the early morning light, a man, a hobo, his back towards us, is silently walking down a dusty road in the middle of nowhere, a pack on his back, a long stick in his right hand. A tumbleweed crosses his path; both are more or less tumbleweeds, blown along either by wind or circumstance.
The Petrified Forest
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.
- Year:
- 1936
- Runtime:
- 82 minutes
- Language:
- English
- Director:
- Archie Mayo
- Screenwriter:
- Charles Kenyon, Delmer Daves
- Executive Producer:
- Hal B. Wallis
- Cast:
- Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart
- Cinematographer:
- Sol Polito
- Editor:
- Owen Marks
- Composer:
- Bernhard Kaun