Thankfully, it’s unlikely many gangster movie fans will come away from this one disappointed.

Narratively,The Petrified Forestgets pretty intense overall, befitting the adjective present in its title.

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James Cageny on the poster for White Heat - 1949 - poster

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Dillinger - 1945

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Edward G. Robinson as Little Caesar smoking a cigar in Little Caesar

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The Killers - 1946

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The cast of ‘High Sierra’

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James Cagney holding and pointing a gun at Pat O’Brien in Angels with Dirty Faces.

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Bette Davis and Leslie Howard in The Petrified Forest

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Tom Powers looking angry while seated at a fancy party in The Public Enemy

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Two men talking in The Roaring Twenties - 1939

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Paul Muni and a group of men in tuxedos in Scarface 1932

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James Cagney standing on top of a burning tank in White Heat - 1949

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