The Petrified forest / Warner Bros. ; screenplay by Charles Kenyon and Delmer Daves ; produced by Hal B. Wallis ; directed by Archie L. Mayo.

Format:

• Video

Contributor:

• Mayo, Archie L., 1891-1968, director.
• Wallis, Hal B., 1899-1986, producer.
• Kenyon, Charles, 1880-1961, screenwriter.
• Daves, Delmer, 1904-1977, screenwriter.
• Bogart, Humphrey, 1899-1957, actor.
• Davis, Bette, 1908-1989, actor.
• Howard, Leslie, 1893-1943, actor.
• Forbstein, Leo F., composer.
• Warner Home Video (Firm), producer.
• Turner Entertainment Co., producer.
• Warner Bros. Pictures, distributor.

Series:

• Warner Bros. Pictures gangsters

Language:

• English
• French
• Spanish

Subjects (All):

• Sherwood, Robert E. (Robert Emmet), 1896-1955--Film adaptations.
• Sherwood, Robert E. (Robert Emmet), 1896-1955.
• Hostages.
• Fugitives from justice.
• Fugitives from justice--Drama.
• Hostages--Drama.

Genre:

• Film adaptations.
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
• Feature films.
• Gangster films.
• Drama.
• Video recordings.

Physical Description:

• 1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
• monochrome

Edition:

Standard version.

Place of Publication:

Burbank, CA : Turner Entertainment Co. : Warner Home Video, [2005]

Language Note:

• In English with optional English, French and Spanish subtitles.
• Closed-captioned.

System Details:

• DVD - NTSC; Dolby digital, mono; Region 1.
• digital
• optical
• mono
• Dolby
• NTSC
• video file
• DVD video
• region 1

Summary:

A rundown diner bakes in the Arizona heat. Inside, fugitive killer Duke Mantee sweats out a manhunt, holding disillusioned writer Alan Squier, young Gabby Maple, and a handful of others hostage.

Participant:

Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin, Dick Foran, Humphrey Bogart, Joseph Sawyer, Eddie Acuff.

Credits:

Photographer, Sol Polito; editor, Owen Marks; music, Leo F. Forbstein.

Notes:

• Based on the 1935 play by Robert E. Sherwood.
• Originally produced as a motion picture in 1936 (copyright 1935).
• Special features: Leonard Maltin hosts Warner night at the movies 1936 with newsreel, musical short Rhythmitis, cartoon The Coo Coo nut grove and theatrical trailers; new featurette The Petrified forest: Menace in the desert; commentary by Bogart biographer Eric Lax; audio-only bonus: radio adaptation starring Bogart, Tyrone Power and Joan Bennett.
• Issued in slipcase: "Warner Bros. Pictures gangsters collection."

Contains:

Sherwood, Robert E. (Robert Emmet), 1896-1955. Petrified forest.

ISBN:

0790747227

OCLC:

57508067

Publisher Number:

• 012569522626
• 65226 Warner Home Video