The Petrified Forest (1936)

At her father’s diner in the Arizona desert, Bette Davis falls in love with intellectual drifter Leslie Howard, but their romance is short lived when Humphrey Bogart uses the diner to hide from the police with his gang. I liked the setting, but Howard comes across as so spineless that it’s hard to see him as a love interest even when stuck in Nowheresville Arizona. The usually formidable Davis is similarly soft which leaves Bogart to carry the bulk of the film in a rather small role though Genevieve Tobin offers a moment or two of poignancy in her roles as one of the additional hostages.