The Petrified Forest

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Call Number: DVD Drama Petrified
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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DVD release of the 1936 motion picture.
Based on the 1935 play by Robert Emmet Sherwood.
Dual-layer format.
Special features: commentary by Bogart biographer Eric Lax; Leonard Maltin hosts Warner Night at the Movies 1936 wtih Newsreel; "Bullets or Ballots" theatrical trailer; musical short "Rhythmitis", cartoon "The Coo Coo Nut Grove"; new featurette: The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert; 1/7/1940 Gulf screen theater broadcast starring Bogart, Tyrone Power and Joan Bennett; includes original theatrical trailer.
Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin, Dick Foran, Humphrey Bogart, Joseph Sawyer, Eddie Acuff.
A rundown diner bakes in the Arizona heat. Inside, fugitive killer Duke Mantee sweats out a manhunt, holding disillusioned writer Alan Squier, young waitress Gabby Maple, and a handful of others hostage.
DVD; Region 1; full screen.
Contents: Petrified forest.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Worth Watching submitted by SaraP on July 26, 2022, 1:27pm I love the setting and the tension, but the tone is a little hit or miss.

The Bogie Man submitted by tarascon on January 26, 2024, 3:05pm The dialogue is quick and smart.
This is the one which put Bogart on the map and for that alone is worth anyone’s 72 minutes. And to think he got fourth billing!