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A rundown diner bakes in the Arizona heat. Inside, fugitive killer Duke Mantee sweats out a manhunt, holding disillusioned writer Alan Squier, young Gabby Maple and a handful of others hostage. The Petrified Forest, Robert E. Sherwood's 1935 Broadway success about survival of the fittest, hit the screen a year later with Leslie Howard and Humphrey Bogart magnificently re-creating their stage roles and Bette Davis ably reteaming with Howard, her Of Human Bondage costar. Sherwood first wanted Bogart for a smaller role. "I thought Sherwood was right," Bogart said. "I couldn't picture myself playing a gangster. So what happened? I made a hit as the gangster." So right for the part was he that Howard refused to make the film without him and helped launch Bogie's brilliant movie career.
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Movie Details
- Format
- DVD
- Encoding
- Region 1 (US & Canada)
- Rating
- NR
- Originally Released
- 1936
- Runtime
- 1 hours, 22 minutes
- Label
- Warner
- Starring
- Leslie Howard; Bette Davis; Genevieve Tobin; Dick Foran; Humphrey Bogart; Joseph Sawyer; Eddie Acuff
Manufactured on Demand
This film was released by studios as part of their MOD (Manufactured-On-Demand) line of releases. This is not a bootleg. In order to make the release of films with low sales demand possible, major studios like Universal, Sony, Warner, Paramount, Hallmark and 20th Century Fox have contracted with a distributor to provide manufactured-on-demand releases to consumers.