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The petrified forest [videorecording (DVD)].

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Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment : distributed by Warner Home Video, c2005.

Warner Bros. Pictures gangsters

Video Difference legacy collection.

1419804995 (Warner Bros. Pictures Gangsters Collection)

1419866451 (Warner Bros. Pictures Gangsters Collection vol.1)

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (82 min.) : Dolby digital, mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm.

Based on the play by Robert E. Sherwood.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1936.

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.

Standard version. Presented in a format preserving the aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition.

In English with English, French or Spanish subtitles.

Closed-captioned.

Produced by Hal B. Wallis ; directed by Archie L. Mayo ; screenplay by Charles Kenyon and Delmer Daves.

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

"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. As trapped as his captives, Mantee admits: 'It looks like I'll spend the rest of my life dead.' The Petrified Forest, Robert E. Sherwood's 1935 Broadway success about survival of the fittest in the modern world, hit the screen a year later with Leslie Howard (Squier) and Humphrey Bogart (Mantee) magnificently recreating their stage roles and Bette Davis (Gabby) ably reteaming with her Of Human Bondage co-star Howard. Sherwood initially wanted Bogart for a smaller role. 'I thought Sherwood was right," Bogart said. "I couldn't picture myself playing a gangster. So what happened? I made a hit as the gangster.' So right was he that Howard refused to make the film without him...and helped launch Bogey's brilliant movie career."--Container.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Gangster films.

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

Wallis, Hal B., 1899-1986.

Mayo, Archie L., 1891-1968.

Howard, Leslie, 1893-1943.

Davis, Bette, 1908-1989.

Bogart, Humphrey, 1899-1957.

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