Petrified Forest Script

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Year:1936
Director:Archie Mayo
Written by:Charles Kenyon (Screenplay), Delmer Daves (Screenplay), Robert E. Sherwood (Theatre Play)

Script Synopsis:Gaby is a waitress in an isolated Arizona gas station who dreams of a bigger and better life. One day, destitute intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, Notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the gas station hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.
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