The Petrified Forest

1936
US
83 min
PG

Directed by: Archie Mayo
Written by: Robert E Sherwood (play), Charles Kenyon, Delmer Daves
Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Genevieve Tobin, Dick Foran

Travellers at a refuge in the Arizona desert are in for a trying time when gangsters on the run enter the scene. Artificial and rather obvious talkfest from a notable piece of middlebrow Broadway drama.