The Petrified Forest (6-Feb-1936)
Director: Archie Mayo Writers: Charles Kenyon; Delmer Daves From a play: The Petrified Forest by Robert E. Sherwood Musical Director: Leo F. Forbstein Keywords: Crime
CAST REVIEWS Review by anonymous (posted on 24-Mar-2006) Leslie Howard and Humphrey
Bogart had played the same roles in the stage version. Warner Brothers
wanted to put Howard in the film but replace Bogart with Edward G.
Robinson. Howard insisted on Bogart, and Robinson was happy to step
aside from yet another gangster role. Bogart would later name his first
child with Lauren Bacall Leslie, in honor of Howard, the man who gave
him his first big break. The character of Duke Mantee was mainly
inspired by bank robber John Dillinger.
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