Humphrey Bogart of the play, "a peach ... a roaring Western melodrama ... Humphrey Bogart does the best work of his career as an actor." Bogart said that the play "marked my deliverance from the ranks of the sleek, sybaritic, stiff-shirted, swallow-tailed 'smoothies' to which I seemed condemned to life." This, however, did not yet mean felt secure. Warner Bros. bought the screen rights to "The Petrified Forest". The play seemed perfect for the studio, which was famous for its socially realistic, urban, low-budget action pictures, especially for a public entranced by real-life criminals like John Dillinger (whom Bogart resembled) and Dutch
Which Lie Did I Tell? begins with more stories about movies he has been involved with, starting with the period from 1982—when "Adventures in the Screen Trade" was published—to 1986 when he received no movie work. Goldman then tells the unfortunate story of how he became mixed up in "Memoirs of an Invisible Man", before the saving grace of "The Princess Bride" brought him his first screen credit in nearly nine years. Other adventures are "Misery", "The Year of the Comet" (which he uses as an example of how a movie can become a failure at the script level), "Maverick" (which he uses as an