The Petrified Forest (1936) (MOD)

The Petrified Forest (1936) (MOD)A rundown diner bakes in the Arizona heat. Inside, fugitive killer Duke Mantee sweats out a manhunt, holding disillusioned writer Alan Squier, young Gabby Maple and a handful of others hostage. The Petrified Forest, Robert E. Sherwood's 1935 Broadway success about survival of the fittest, hit the screen a year later with Leslie Howard and Humphrey Bogart magnificently re creating their stage roles and Bette Davis ably reteaming with Howard, her Of

and serial murderer

Operation Secret is mission accomplished

"I adored him

while demonstrating what a fine comedienne she is

From Headquarters come the army of crime specialists - toxicologists

doesn't know that the bullets are real and the truth serum true

side seams

a rescue mission from which they may never return

they could tap into a big oil company's fuel line

The Yellow Rose also boasts a cast as outsized and impressive as its home state: David Soul

Spain's foiled scheme to supplant Queen Elizabeth (and replace her with Mary of Scotland) and Drake's daring battle-at-sea gambit that left the mighty Spanish Armada in ruins

By radically changing the setting of Dostoevski's Crime and Punishment