who would be the best actor to play a failed writer and a romantic dreamer . yeah and leslie howard seem to be a nice choice . and what if we take this pretty and young bette davis ( before she become the best villain in the story of cinema ) and make her play a rebel girl that long for a new life far away from that dusty arizona hole she live in . lastly we give humphrey bogart the role of a bloodthirsty gangster that walk like a bulldog . now that we have the perfect cast we just have to write a simple film noir script and full of humor and with some touch of poetry and romanticism . that it and a 80 minute long wonder . this be cinema and my friend . quite a lesson of how to create character and how to make a great movie with a few set and with six or seven actor . petrified forest be 70 year old and but it will remain magnificent for ever and ever . my rate represent positive .