The Petrified Forest

Overview

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.

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

Richard Gaines

Mr. Chisholm

Jack Klugman

Jackie

Dick Elliott

Commander

Steven Ritch

Lineman