Bette Davis and chronic wussbag Leslie Howard are held captive in her remote Arizona diner, by escaped convict Humphrey Gocart.
Bizarre... was being held captive in the the hospitality industry the most-feared crime of the 40s?
LOL! Probably. I have seen both and I think the Petrified Forest is a btter film. Key Largo seems to drag on too long and is not nearly as good.
shareEasy there, Leslie Howard pulled major strings to get Bogie in that picture,.. Bogie thought the world of Howard and was very appreciative.
"Leslie Howard and Humphrey Bogart had played the same roles in the stage version. Warner Brothers wanted to put Howard in the film but replace Bogart with Edward G. Robinson. Howard insisted on Bogart, and Robinson was happy to step aside from yet another gangster role. Bogart would later name his first child with Lauren Bacall Leslie, in honor of Howard, the man who gave him his first big break."
There are similarities and it shows how bogie's career turned from perennial bad guy to the good guy.
I like key largo better because petrified forest is so claustrophobic and limited in scope.
This is an acting students dream with 3 of the greatest actors of al time in bogie, eddie robinson and lyle barrymore and they were not the oscar winners.
I like key largo better because petrified forest is so claustrophobic and limited in scope.
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I thought key largo was a remake of petrified forest...
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