Ascendancy of gangster films in 1930s Hollywood is often explained by the popularity of real and larger-than-life figures from criminal underworld that excited imagination of impoverished masses during Great Depression. This phenomenon affected even the works that don’t belong to gangster genre in the strictest of sense. One example can be found in *The Petrified Forest*, celebrated 1935 play by Robert E. Sherwood.…
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The Petrified Forest
1936
The Petrified Forest is a 1936 American crime tragedy film directed by Archie Mayo and based on Robert E. Sherwood's 1934 drama of the same name. The motion picture stars Leslie Howard, Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart. The screenplay was written by Delmer Daves and Charles Kenyon, and adaptations were later performed on radio and television. The film is set in Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. According to…
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