The Petrified Forest (Blu-ray)
AGAIN THEY TRIUMPH!...The stars of 'Human Bondage' in a picture greater than the play!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 22 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 21, 2013
- Originally Released: 1936
- Label: Turner Classic Movie
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Leslie Howard & Bette Davis | |
Performer: | Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Joe Sawyer, Porter Hall, Charley Grapewin, Paul Harvey & Eddie Acuff | |
Directed by | Archie Mayo | |
Edited by | Owen Marks | |
Screenplay by | Charles Kenyon & Delmer Daves | |
Composition by | Bernhard Kaun | |
Art Direction by | John Hughes | |
Story by | Robert E. Sherwood | |
Produced by | Henry Blanke | |
Director of Photography: | Sol Polito |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Award-winning adaptation
Film Journal International
Rating: 3/4 --
Bogart's breakout, and for good reason.
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LarsenOnFilm
Bogart more than met the challenge, giving a terrifying, menacing performance as Mantee, turning his movie career around.
Los Angeles Times
Very young people won't find The Petrified Forest much fun, but adults, who like wise and witty talk, with or without gunplay, should find it rewarding.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: B- --
The screen version is still a play, but it's aturning point in the movie career of Humphrey Bogart, who had played the gangster's role on stage and then in a TV version with his wife (in Bette davis role)
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 4/5 --
Stagebound and very literary, but still good,
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Darker looks have never been cast on celluloid.
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Brooklyn Magazine
Product Description:
This heartfelt drama about a gangster on the run is the film for which Humphrey Bogart first received wide-scale recognition. Bogie and costar Leslie Howard were both brought on board after appearing in the successful stage play by Pulitzer prize-winner Robert E. Sherwood. Director Archie Mayo follows the original closely to create a fast-paced and gripping suspense drama with existential motifs. Leslie Howard plays a perfect gentleman--a lonely intellectual in search of meaning. When he lands in a deserted café, he finds what he's looking for in the form of young Bette Davis, whose character yearns for the artistic climate of gay Paris. But both Howard and Davis are in for a bumpy ride when dangerous gangster played by Bogart takes over, holding up the joint at gunpoint. The small group of hostages take turns telling their tales, fearing death, while Bogie plots to reunite with his gang and his girl. Few films in history can stand up to THE PETRIFIED FOREST, which combines the words of literary giant Robert E. Sherwood with the sizzling performances of Howard, Davis, and Bogart.