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August 14 movie: The Petrified Forest. Lesley Howard, Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart star in a talky but affecting drama about a bunch of people trapped in a rustic inn with a gangster. Most interesting to me was the way everyone projected their own motives and desires onto Bogart's desperado. Also interesting was a small subplot about the ideological clash between two African Americans: one Bogart's henchman, the other a rich man's valet. The gangster lectures the manservant on giving up his freedom to take orders from a white man, yet himself has no more freedom than the valet does. Each one is totally obedient to his respective boss.