The Petrified Forest

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Leslie Howard Alan Squier

Bette Davis Gabrielle "Gabby" Maple

Humphrey Bogart Duke Mantee

Genevieve Tobin Mrs. Edith Chisholm

Dick Foran Boze Hertzlinger