The Petrified Forest

United States

1936

82 Min

Black and White

1.37:1

English

Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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SCR Robert E. Sherwood, Delmer Daves, Charles Kenyon

CAST Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin, Dick Foran, Humphrey Bogart, Joe Sawyer, Porter Hall, Charley Grapewin, Paul Harvey, Eddie Acuff, Adrian Morris, Nina Campana, Slim Thompson, John Alexander, Arthur Aylesworth

Archie Mayo

Archie Mayo (29 January 1891, New York City – 4 December 1968, Guadalajara, Mexico) was a movie director and stage actor who moved to Hollywood in 1915 and began working as a director in 1917.

His films include Is Everybody Happy? (1929) with Ted Lewis, Night After Night (1932) with Mae West, The Doorway to Hell (1930) with James Cagney and Lew Ayres, Convention City (1933) with Joan Blondell, The Mayor of Hell (1933) with James Cagney, The Petrified Forest (1936) with Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart, and The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) with Gary Cooper.

Mayo retired in 1946, shortly after completing A Night in Casablanca with the Marx Brothers and Angel on My Shoulder with Paul Muni, Anne Baxter, and Claude Rains.

Mayo has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, CA. —Wikipedia

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Spencer Draper

28Jan13

Most surprisingly of all you forget that this was a stage play. This has such an electric charge running through it that you find yourself unable to turn away, mostly due to the relationship between Bogart and Howard, who form two halves of the same coin. The gangster and the disillusioned intellectual have no place in this emerging America, men beyond their means who tower over the pitiful lesser-minded simpletons.

AKFilmFan

12Aug12

Very talkative but that's the nature of the play it was based on. Still, very entertaining and has good performances by Howard and Bogie (in his film debut).

pjjrfan

26Oct11

One of my favorites, Bogart and Davis. This is the role made for Bogart the relationship between Bogart and Howard is pure joy. this is the role that made Bogart a star or got him noticed. The killer and the dreamer both in love and on a one way ticket to death.