Petrified Forest, The
Broadcast: 22nd November 1937
Added: Apr 01 2005
The Petrified Forest is adapted from a hit Broadway play by Robert Sherwood. Duke Mantee and his gang have just performed an armed robbery on a bank in Arizona and meantime Alan Squire a writer played by Herbert Marshall has just hitched a lift and finds himself in a filling station café where disillusioned Gabby Maple works as a waitress. Squire and Gabby strike up a conversation about poetry and her longing to go to France unaware that Mantee and his gangsters are approaching.