The Petrified Forest: Classic Noir Drama on Stage
Theatre West (Hollywood, CA)
Robert E. Sherwood’s The Petrified Forest is a classic film noir story that first saw life on the stage before later being adapted into a 1936 film starring Humphrey Bogart, Leslie Howard and Bette Davis. Set in the Great Depression, it’s the story of a young dreamer and a disillusioned intellectual who meet at a roadside diner and gas station on an Arizona highway. Their lives are changed when escaped criminal Duke Mantee and his gang arrive and take the café customers hostage.
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