Les damnés (1969) The Shawshank Redemption (1994 House of D (2004) The Kids Are All Right (2010) The Book of Eli (2010 Cloud Atlas (2012) My Old Lady (2014) Thank You for Smoking (2005 Minuit à Paris (2011) Blade Runner (1982) Splice (2009 The Petrified Forest Plot[edit] Title from the film's trailer Alan Squier (Howard), once a British intellectual and writer, now a penniless drifter, wanders into a roadside diner in the Petrified Forest area in northern Arizona. The diner is run by Jason Maple (Porter Hall), his daughter Gabrielle (Davis), and her grandfather (Charley Grapewin), "an old man who was missed by Billy the Kid." Alan recounts his European adventures and Gabrielle is instantly smitten with him. Everyone is of course terrified, except Alan, who has little to live for. The police close in; Duke obliges Alan by shooting him. Cast[edit] History[edit] The 1935 Broadway production of The Petrified Forest starred Howard, who was an established star, and Bogart, a newcomer in his first major role. Radio and television adaptations[edit] Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, and Henry Fonda in the 1955 live televised version Legacy[edit] References[edit] Jump up ^ The Petrified Forest page, Internet Broadway Database, undated. External links[edit]
Soylent Green Soylent Green is a 1973 American science fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, and, in his final film, Edward G. Robinson. The film combines the police procedural and science fiction genres, depicting the investigation into the murder of a wealthy businessman in a dystopian future suffering from pollution, overpopulation, depleted resources, poverty, dying oceans, and a hot climate due to the greenhouse effect. Much of the population survives on processed food rations, including "soylent green". Plot[edit] The 20th century's industrialization has left the world permanently overcrowded, polluted and stagnant by the turn of the 21st century. New York City Police Department detective Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) lives with his aged friend Solomon "Sol" Roth (Edward G. Thorn later gives Roth the classified Soylent Oceanographic Survey Report, 2015 to 2019 found in Simonson's apartment. Cast[edit] Production[edit] Critical response[edit]