Sisters Aline MacMahon and Ann Dvorak run an auto stop out in the middle of the Mojave Desert, with the nearest town 26 miles away. Miss MacMahon seems busy and contented. Miss Dvorak wants boys and excitement. She think so, anyway. When Miss MacMahon's old lover, gangster Preston Foster shows up on the run from a bank robbery and murder, various threads and other peoples' stories get tangled for a night.
It's from a play co-written by George Abbott, and the sets likely used for several plays for several seasons on Broadway. It's far less philosophical, poetic and pretentious than THE PETRIFIED FOREST, which is the show that jumps to mind, but it ultimately becomes a bit of a Woman's Problem movie, carried on the capable shoulders of Miss MacMahon. There's plenty of performers to help her, including Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Ruth Donnelly, Jane Darwell, Edgar Kennedy, and Chris-Pin Martin.
It's from a play co-written by George Abbott, and the sets likely used for several plays for several seasons on Broadway. It's far less philosophical, poetic and pretentious than THE PETRIFIED FOREST, which is the show that jumps to mind, but it ultimately becomes a bit of a Woman's Problem movie, carried on the capable shoulders of Miss MacMahon. There's plenty of performers to help her, including Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Ruth Donnelly, Jane Darwell, Edgar Kennedy, and Chris-Pin Martin.