The Petrified Forest - Tumblr Posts

—Please come sit down, Gabrielle. You see…I’ve got to tell you now that I love you. —Alan… —I tell you solemnly…you’re the first person I ever loved in my life. —Alan, they’re all staring at us. —I know, but you’ve got to believe and remember…because, you see, this is my one chance of survival. I told you about that major artist that’s been hidden. Well, I’m transferring him to you. You’ll find a line in that poem of Villon’s that fits that.  Something about: Thus in your field my seed of harvestry will thrive…Well, I’ve provided barren soil for that seed, but you’ll give it fertility and growth and fruition. … —I told you I was looking for something to believe in, worth living for and dying for. Well, I… I believe I found it…here in the valley of the sh- —Alan, what have you found? —I don’t know.

BETTE DAVIS and LESLIE HOWARD in THE PETRIFIED FOREST —dir. Archie Mayo (1936)

Leslie Howard in The Petrified Forest (1936) dir. Archie Mayo

Leslie Howard characters + tumblr and tiktok texts part 1.

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