A young, flirty Bette Davis lucks out when Leslie Howard, a wandering intellectual in search of meaning in life, walks into her particular cafe. Greasy food is served, googly-eyed glances are exchanged, and all is oh-so-good and as sexy as 1936 ever got—and then Humphrey Bogart shows up. Playing a gun-toting con on the run, Bogie made his first big impression with this film, in which he holds the staff and patrons of a lonely Arizona diner hostage. As the captives wait out their uncertain ordeal, they share stories and re-imagine the lives they hope to escape to. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Robert E. Sherwood.
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