Popular Culture
After the release of The Petrified Forest, Friz Freleng made the short-length cartoon parody She Was an Acrobat's Daughter (1937), which portrays a cinema audience watching The Petrified Florist, starring Bette Davis and Lester Coward.
In the Dad's Army episode, "The Deadly Attachment," Pike suggests the captain deals with a hostage situation by mimicking Howard's behaviour in The Petrfied Forest, neglecting at first to mention Howard's character was killed in that film. Later, Pike says that on joining the RAF he will be "the second of the few"; a reference to Howard's The First of the Few.
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