Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Dick Foran, Genevieve Tobin, Joseph Sawyer, Eddie Acuff. Originally released as a motion picture in 1936. Special features: commentary by Bogart biographer Eric Lax; Leonard Maltin hosts Warner Night at the Movies 1936 wtih Newsreel, musical short "Rhythmitis", cartoon "The Coo Coo Nut Grove"; theatrical trailers ; featurette: The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert; 1/7/1940 Gulf screen theater broadcast.
Summary:
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.
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