direct by archie mayo and the petrified forest give a tremendous boost to bogart screen career by provide him with a ready make showcase for his talent the movie be a very faithful adaptation of the play a it tell of a group of diverse personality who find themselves hold at bay in a small service station restaurant by a ruthless gunman and his gang on the run from pursue police there be heavily symbolic overtone involve the overrunning of the doom intellectual by corruptive brute force into this truly fragile framework and the screenplay weave a tapestry of penetrate character study first there be alan squier ( leslie howard ) and a disillusioned writer and intellectual who realize he be a member of a vanish breed of men whose vision of a utopian existence have give way to the oppressive reality of a world that no longer have any room for his type of dreamer frustrate and quietly despair and he meet a dreamer of another type and gabrielle maple ( bette davis ) . she share squier love of beauty and poetry and dream of flee her repress entrapment at the restaurant and travel to france into their world of fanciful idealism enters humphrey bogartthe reality and the brute force which threaten not only the dreamer but all of society it be a finely truthful portrait of ultimate evil and magnificently play by bogart with all the uncompromising ferocity the role demand it be one of bogart fine portrayal and it be the model and although considerably restrain and he would follow for the next year of his career final note represent duke mantee be a killer on the run he be not a big shot businessman the assumption put into the audience mind be that this mobster be a bank robber and a hold up artist and an escaped convict . but never a wealthy criminal control an empire of corruption from plush office on the 18th floor approximately twenty year later and bogart recreate his original role in a television production of the petrified forest . direct by delbert mann and the play feature lauren bacall in the davis role and henry fonda in howard part . after all those year and bogart still have the character down perfectly and receive excellent notice .