"The Petrified Forest". Sponsored by: Lux. Love and murder amidst the beautiful background of the Arizona desert. The story was originally produced in 1937 and again produced on April 23, 1945 with a new cast. The Petrified Forest is adapted from a hit Broadway play by Robert Sherwood. Duke Mantee (Lawrence Tierney) and his gang have just committed an armed robbery on a bank in Arizona and meantime Alan Squire a writer played by Ronald Coleman has just hitched a lift and finds himself in a filling station café where disillusioned Gabby Maple (Susan Heyward) works as a waitress. Squire and Gabby strike up a conversation about poetry and her longing to go to France unaware that Mantee and his gangsters are approaching. Listen here or on Itunes or Google Play Music by searching podcasts for "Heirloom Radio" without " " . www.facebook.com/heirloomradio Please Like us here or on Facebook if you enjoy the track. Thank you for listening and for helping to keep old time radio, an important part of our American Cultural Arts History alive! That is the whole point of this podcast.
