Critic Reviews

Petrified Forest, The (1936) Rank 4 Reviews

Expert Review Summary

Movie critics combined give Petrified Forest, The (1936) a score of 3.1040 out of 4

based on (20) reviews

Click on the numbers to the right of the graph to see reviews of that rating

Excellent

(4)

Very Good

(16)

Good

(0)

Fair

(0)

Poor

(0)

Reviews by Score:

DVDBeaver.com (Gary W. Tooze)

Humphrey Bogart plays gangster Duke Mantee - his first of such roles. Leslie Howard and a young Bette Davis also fill the marquee. Definitely an unlikely gangster film as it is noteworthy for its social commentary on greed, wealth, position, art and love. ...read the complete Petrified Forest movie review at DVDBeaver.com (Gary W. Tooze)

Channel 4 Film (--)

A strong, if stagy, adaptation of Sherwood's play, has Howard and Bogart reprising roles they had played on Broadway. Bogart is the jailbird on the lam, holding a group hostage at a desert diner. Howard and Davis are the two dreamers thrown together by ...read the complete Petrified Forest movie review at Channel 4 Film (--)

The Onion A.V. Club (Noel Murray)

In 1931, Warner Brothers released the compact, brutish gangster classic Little Caesar to a movie-going public that had escaped the eye-opening inhumanity of the Industrial Revolution and World War I, only to land in the thick of Prohibition and the Great ...read the complete Petrified Forest movie review at The Onion A.V. Club (Noel Murray)

Crazy for Cinema

Showcasing one of Bogart earliest standout performances, THE PETRIFIED FOREST is a strange mix of romance, suspense and metaphysical meandering. It has to be one of the most verbose thrillers ever made. Leslie Howard plays Alan Squier, a rambling ...read the complete Petrified Forest movie review at Crazy for Cinema

from $4.00