---
title: 'The Petrified Forest (1936)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Archie Mayo'
released: '1936-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 79
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Crime'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-petrified-forest-1936'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028096/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Petrified Forest (1936)

1936 · 79 min · Drama, Crime · United States


## Synopsis

The Petrified Forest is a 1936 American crime tragedy film directed by Archie Mayo and based on Robert E. Sherwood's 1934 drama of the same name. The motion picture stars Leslie Howard, Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart. The screenplay was written by Delmer Daves and Charles Kenyon, and adaptations were later performed on radio and television. The film is set in Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. According to Variety, Warner Bros. Pictures filmed two endings. Howard's character dies in one and survives in the other. In May 1945, Warner Bros. released another film based on Sherwood's play, Escape in the Desert. It pits a Dutch flyer walking across country to San Francisco and others against a bunch of escaped Nazi POWs.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Archie Mayo](https://cinepixo.com/people/archie-mayo)
- **Screenplay:** [Delmer Daves](https://cinepixo.com/people/delmer-daves)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Bernhard Kaun](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernhard-kaun)
- **Producer:** [Hal B. Wallis](https://cinepixo.com/people/hal-b-wallis)
- **Director of Photography:** [Sol Polito](https://cinepixo.com/people/sol-polito)
- **Editor:** [Owen Marks](https://cinepixo.com/people/owen-marks)

## Cast

- [Joe Sawyer](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-sawyer)
- [Leslie Howard](https://cinepixo.com/people/leslie-howard)
- [Dick Foran](https://cinepixo.com/people/dick-foran)
- [Arthur Aylesworth](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-aylesworth)
- [Porter Hall](https://cinepixo.com/people/porter-hall)
- [Gus Leonard](https://cinepixo.com/people/gus-leonard)
- [Charley Grapewin](https://cinepixo.com/people/charley-grapewin)
- [Genevieve Tobin](https://cinepixo.com/people/genevieve-tobin)
- [Paul Harvey](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-harvey)
- [Humphrey Bogart](https://cinepixo.com/people/humphrey-bogart)
- [Bette Davis](https://cinepixo.com/people/bette-davis)

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