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The Petrified Forest

  • Drama
  • TV Movie

May 30, 1955 (US)

1h 16m

Gabrielle Maple works in a dusty desert gas station-café, but yearns for the life of an artist in France, knowing there must be something finer than the provincial dead-end she is trapped in. A hitch-hiking writer, the disillusioned Alan Squier, appears and revitalizes her dreams...

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