The Petrified Forest (1936)
Gabby lives and works at her dads small diner out in the desert. She can't stand it and wants to go and live with her mother in France. Along comes Alan, a broke man with no will to live, who is traveling to see the pacific, and maybe to drown in it. Meanwhile Duke Mantee a notorious killer and his gang is heading towards the diner where Mantee plan on meeting up with his girl.
Vintage magazines
Photoplay , February 1936
Photoplay , March 1936
Books with substantial mentioning of The Petrified Forest
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Martin Shingler When Warners brought Broadway to Hollywood 1923-1939 London, 2018 |
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David Thomson Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films New York, 2008 |
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| Jonathan Munby Public Enemies, Public Heroes, Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil Chicago and London, 1999 |
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James Robert Parish Hollywood's Great Love Teams New Rochelle, N.Y., 1974 |
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Clifford McCarty Bogey, The Films of Humphrey Bogart New York, NY, 1965 |
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Books with an entry on The Petrified Forest
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Larry Langman and Daniel Finn A Guide to American Crime Films of the Thirties Westport, Connecticut - London, 1995 |
