What happens
Gabrielle Maple, the young daughter of a desert roadside restaurant owner, and her grandfather Gramps Maple run their isolated Arizona diner. A drifting writer named Alan Squier arrives on foot, hungry and talking about his past, and begins to talk with Gabrielle about France and her mother. Their conversation is interrupted when the notorious killer Duke Mantee and his gang take over the restaurant and hold its occupants hostage. The episode is part of the Screen Guild Theater series, broadcast on January 7, 1940, and features Joan Bennett, Tyrone Power and Humphrey Bogart. The episode is adapted from Robert Sherwood's play The Petrified Forest.
A roadside restaurant and garage on a lonely highway in the Arizona desert, at night.
Characters: Gabrielle Maple, Alan Squier, Duke Mantee, Gramps Maple, Boze, Jackie, Paula
Listen for: Duke Mantee's gang takes the diner's occupants hostage, and Alan Squier's conversation with Gabrielle about France and her mother.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.