The Petrified Forest
AGAIN THEY TRIUMPH!...The stars of 'Human Bondage' in a picture greater than the play!
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2/8/1936Runtime
82 minsOverview
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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A pressure-cooker hostage drama where dreams collide with brutal reality inside a desert diner. Beneath the crime-thriller surface lies a quietly romantic meditation on unfulfilled lives and the people passing through them.
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