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The Petrified Forest (1936) [w/Commentary]
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The Petrified Forest (1936)
BDRip 1080p | MKV | 1920x1080 | x264 @ 5760 Kbps | 82 min | 3,42 Gb
Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 96 Kbps + Commentary track | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
BDRip 1080p | MKV | 1920x1080 | x264 @ 5760 Kbps | 82 min | 3,42 Gb
Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 96 Kbps + Commentary track | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Director: Archie Mayo (as Archie L. Mayo)
Writers: Charles Kenyon (screen play), Delmer Daves (screen play)
Stars: Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis
Gabby lives and works at her dads small diner out in the desert. She can't stand it and wants to go and live with her mother in France. Along comes Alan, a broke man with no will to live, who is traveling to see the pacific, and maybe to drown in it. Meanwhile Duke Mantee a notorious killer and his gang is heading towards the diner where Mantee plan on meeting up with his girl.
A glorious movie based on a very wise and compassionate play. It is a savage indictment of a lifeless civilization. Confronted by death in a hostage situation, one elderly wife bitterly reproaches her husband of having stifled her personality: "You took my soul, you stenciled it on a card and filed it". Leslie Howard gives up his quest for bliss, and seeks to die in style for his beloved. Bogart represents nature lashing out against man. Alas, few movies from the thirties achieve this height of artistry. Hollywood makes a mistake when drawing plots from novels rather than plays. The concentrated compactness and intimacy of a play cannot be had from a sprawling novel.
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The Petrified Forest (1936) [w/Commentary]
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Audio commentary: with Eric Lax (2005)
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