The Petrified Forest

Alan arrives at the Maple service station and falls in love with waitress Gabby Maple. She persuades the Chisholms to give him a ride on their way to California. They are then stopped by Duke Mantee and his gang who subsequently take his car., Landmark gangster movie, with Humphrey Bogart in the role that made him a star on both stage and screen – the murderous hostage-taker, ‘Duke’ Mantee, who terrorises the patrons of an isolated Arizona diner., A young waitress and her father, a depressed wanderer, and a criminal and his gang all become embroiled in a hostage situation that erupts at a lonely diner in the Arizona desert., Landmark gangster movie, with Humphrey Bogart in the role that made him a star – the murderous hostage-taker, ‘Duke’ Mantee. Bette Davis and Leslie Howard co-star., In this film, burned-out British intellectual Leslie Howard wanders into the desert service station/restaurant owned by Porter Hall. Howard finds himself an object of fascination for Hall’s starry-eyed daughter Bette Davis. Davis’ gas jockey boyfriend grows jealous of Howard, but the penniless, dissipated Briton has no intention of settling down.