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
Humphrey Bogart top 100 quotations in American cinema, the most by any actor: Bogart is also credited with one of the top movie misquotations, "Play it again, Sam". In "Casablanca", neither his Rick Blaine character nor anyone else says the line, although it is widely credited to him and is the verbatim title of a Woody Allen tribute movie. Roger Moore says "Play it again Sam" in Moonraker, just after killing Chang in Venice. When Blaine's former love, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), first enters his "Café Americain", she spots Sam, the piano player (Dooley Wilson), and asks him to "Play it once, Sam,