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(1936)
Movie The Petrified Forest
Title The Petrified Forest
Year 1936
Director Archie Mayo
Genre Crime, Drama
Plot – Several colorful characters meet in a cabin-hotel in the Arizona desert. Each of them represents the different trends of human nature as they're a philosopher-writer, an intellectual girl and the leader of a gang. Through a dialectical duel, they discover the deeper folds of their personalities. In the end the writer signs a policy in favor of the girl and proposes the gangsters to kill him in order to assure a good future to her. The gangster keeps his promise and when the police arrives he makes the agents shoot at him.
All actors – 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, Jack Cheatham, Jim Farley, George Guhl, Gus Leonard, Tom McGuire, Henry O'Neill, Addison Richards, Francis J. Scheid, Perc Teeple
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