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
Seth Bogart a high heel and have her get a makeover in a hair salon before she gets plastic surgery. It was a good excuse make all of my sculptures video stars before I sold them." The stop-motion-animated video was directed and animated by Hannah Lew of the groups Grass Widow and Cold Beat. The last scene depicts the high heels being hanged to death after smoking and drinking, and is set in a pink-colored replica of the set of the 1983 science fiction horror film "Videodrome". Bogart had actually asked one of his friends who was actually in the movie, Debbie