Featured Audience Ratings

• Bob S

  
  a "classic" that really doesn't hold up. pretty bad, actually.

• AJ V

  
  An interesting love story wrapped up in a crime thriller story. A bit long and talky, though, but pretty good.

• danny d

  
  a very diologue driven gangster picture that delivers. the acting was very good and the story well told despite the fact that it was incredibly simple. the entire film essentially takes place on a single set and no "event" really takes place throughout the film, but the… More
  a very diologue driven gangster picture that delivers. the acting was very good and the story well told despite the fact that it was incredibly simple. the entire film essentially takes place on a single set and no "event" really takes place throughout the film, but the diologue was poetic. i just had a really good time watching people talk for 80 minutes, and the fate of these well planned characters really mattered to me. great movie.

• Ken S

  
  Leslie Howard and Betty Davis have zero chemistry in this film. However the unexpected story and Bogart make this film a real pleasure.

• Michael G

  
  Bette Davis is still cute and Bogart is frightening in one of his first movies.

• Rico Z

  
  It's so true when people say that they don't make movies like these anymore. First of all, the script to this moral story is exemplary and almost poetic. The film has been adapted from a stage play an feels very much like one onscreen. I personally like this. The… More
  It's so true when people say that they don't make movies like these anymore. First of all, the script to this moral story is exemplary and almost poetic. The film has been adapted from a stage play an feels very much like one onscreen. I personally like this. The cinematography is superb and the performances by younger Bogart and an even younger Better Davis are top-notch. But the crux of the film lies in Leslie Howard's performance as the drifter. The story is that of a drifter who comes into a dusty old cafe in the middle of the Southwest desert. The land is desolate and devoid of any human life except for this small pit stop. There, this drifter meets Gabrielle and she proceeds to fall in love with him. What follows is a conflict of interest when they are held against their wills in this cafe by a group of bandits lead by Bogart's character. The ending will leave some of you stunned but the message is that of finding beauty in the most unlikely places; finding beauty in tragedy, in isolation and in a place as desolate as the petrified forest. Love can exist anywhere, as long as there are two hearts to carry it. It doesn't have to exist in "romantic" places like Paris or Normandie, it can flourish in a dusty old cafe in the middle of nowhere!

• Alec B

  
  Simultaneously hopeful and tragic "The Petrified Forest" presents a great character study of a self-loathing and unaccomplished intellectual. In fact, the film maybe hit a little too close to home for me at moments.

• Mike T

  
  Taken individually, the performances in this movie are little more than colorful. Taken into account as a group, the actors establish a consistent and engaging energy that makes this movie work as well as it can. Original, smartly directed and backed up by a good script.

• MJS M

  
  This film is mainly remembered for having Humphrey Bogart?s breakthrough role, and that?s really all that?s worth remembering it for. Bogart plays a memorable villain here that doesn?t show up until the third act. Until then it?s a bit of a waste, clearly based on a play and poorly… More
  This film is mainly remembered for having Humphrey Bogart?s breakthrough role, and that?s really all that?s worth remembering it for. Bogart plays a memorable villain here that doesn?t show up until the third act. Until then it?s a bit of a waste, clearly based on a play and poorly expanded for the cinema. Leslie Howard is the lead, and he?s really weak, his acting is exaggerated and the character comes off like a complete wimp. I don?t expect complete naturalism from actors of this era, but he?s particularly bad. It does pick up in the last act and the beginning isn?t completely hard to take. An interesting bit of film archeology, but not overly compelling.

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