The Petrified Forest
1936 film by Archie Mayo / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Petrified Forest is a 1936 American film directed by Archie Mayo and based on Robert E. Sherwood's 1935 Broadway drama of the same name. The motion picture stars Leslie Howard, Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart.[1] 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.
| The Petrified Forest | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Archie Mayo |
| Screenplay by | |
| Based on | The Petrified Forest 1935 play by Robert E. Sherwood |
| Produced by | Hal B. Wallis (executive producer, uncredited) |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Sol Polito |
| Edited by | Owen Marks |
| Music by | Bernhard Kaun |
Production company | |
Release date | February 8, 1936 (United States) |
Running time | 82 minutes |
| Language | English |
According to Variety, Warner Bros. filmed two endings. Howard's character dies in one and survives in the other.[2]
In May 1945, Warner Bros. released another film based on Sherwood's play, Escape in the Desert. It pitches a Dutch flyer walking across country to San Francisco and others against a bunch of escaped Nazi POWs.