The Petrified Forest 1936 123movies

Watch: The Petrified Forest 1936 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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..
Plot: Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner’s inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.
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	7.5/10 Votes: 14,084
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Reviews:

An amazingly relevant piece of cinema…
The best context to look at “The Petrified Forest” is through the context of the first great disaster of the 20th Century: World War I (or, as it was known then, “The Great War”). I had just finished reading a long, thorough history of World War I when I saw this one and even though this is some twenty years after that awful catastrophe (all wars usually are, but this one especially), one can still feel it’s aftershocks rolling through that desolate landscape. Maybe that’s why Leslie Howard’s character, Alan Squier, wound up wandering through there, as it probably reminded him of more than a few days and nights in No Man’s Land (a term invented by the Great War to describe the space between enemy lines). A lot of non-American WWI veterans came out of it really messed up. The whole foundation of the 19th century’s ideals had been laid to waste by this new and brutal world that WWI brought about. So it’s not very suprising to me that Squier feels “obsolete”, as he puts it; the role he had hoped to take with his world doesn’t even exist. The best he can do is give Gabrielle Maple the chance he can never have.

Duke Mantee (played by Bogie in a superb, breakthrough performance) is also a relic, but from a different period, that of the Roaring Twenties. Not for nothing were such outlaws as John Dillenger and Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow glamourized during this period; one could possibly point to our current fascination with serial killers as this phenomenon’s modern equivalent. But by 1936, the period of the romantic outlaw was drawing to a close if it wasn’t already over (a point made five years later in “High Sierra”). Mantee is totally without hope of escape or even a reprieve. He sees his fate as clear as day and doesn’t kid himself about his chances of eluding it forever. That, more than anything, would explain his rapproachment with Squier and perhaps his reluctance to shoot him until Squier gives him no choice. Mantee may know his own fate well enough, but he has no wish to inflict that fate on someone in the same position.

Granted, there’s a lot more layers and angles going on in “The Petrified Forest” than what I’ve just mentioned here, but this was the one that grabbed the most. Because human nature doesn’t change that much, perhaps that’s why this brilliant stage piece still holds my respect.

Absorbing Drama
A fine adaptation of Robert Sherwood play about a group of people held hostage by gangsters at a roadside diner in the Arizona desert. The terrific cast includes Howard as a failed writer, Davis as a waitress with big dreams, Grapevine as Davis’s sauce-loving grandfather, and Bogart in his breakthrough role of gangster Duke Mantee. The actors work well together, with Tobin and Harvey rather amusing as the bickering rich couple (he refers to her as “my dear idiot wife”). It is is very nicely directed by Mayo. We get an early glimpse of the tough-guy persona that Bogart would parlay into super-stardom. Unfortunately it got him typecast in gangster roles for years until his star turn as a “good” gangster in “High Sierra.”

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 22 min (82 min) (Turner library print)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Drama, Thriller
Director Archie Mayo
Writer Charles Kenyon, Delmer Daves, Robert E. Sherwood
Actors Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length (8 reels), 2,296 m (Netherlands)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm