The Petrified Forest

The Petrified Forest — Plot

Gabrielle Maple works in a dusty desert gas station-café, but yearns for the life of an artist in France, knowing there must be something finer than the provincial dead-end she is trapped in. A hitch-hiking writer, the disillusioned Alan Squier, appears and revitalizes her dreams of a better place, and finds his own sense of worth refreshed by this vital young girl. When Duke Mantee and his gang, wanted killers, show up and take hostages, Gabrielle falls in love with the poetic Alan, and Squier begins to see a way to give Gabby the life she deserves.

• Release date
• May 30, 1955
• Runtime
• 76 min
• Genres
• TV Movie, Drama
• Director
• Delbert Mann

The Petrified Forest — Cast

Humphrey Bogart Duke Mantee Henry Fonda Alan Squier Lauren Bacall Gabby Maple Paul Hartman Jason Maple Jack Warden Boze Richard Jaeckel Ruby Joseph Sweeney Gramps Natalie Schafer Mrs. Chisholm