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? example of the principle that the best scene sometimes needs to be cut), "The Ghost and the Darkness" (which he uses as an example of how ego can hinder a film's production and artistic integrity) and "Absolute Power" (which he uses as an example to illustrate why a movie does not have to be faithful to the book on which it is based). Two films he does not cover are "Heat" (for legal reasons) and "The Chamber" (because it was not remotely interesting). The next part of the book has Goldman analyzing scenes from various screenplays he admires including "There's