A disillusioned wanderer and a restless young woman are trapped at a desert filling station when a notorious gangster takes everyone hostage.

This Lux Radio Theatre broadcast aired on November 22, 1937. It is listed as episode 37 in the archive. CBS Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Herbert Marshall, Margaret Sullavan, Cecil B. DeMille, Donald Meek, and Eduardo Ciannelli. Other credited names include Frank Woodruff as director, George Wells as radio adaptor, Melville Ruick as announcer, and Frank Nelson as announcer.

The surviving recording runs about 59 minutes. The broadcast is also associated with Lux.

This version dramatizes The Petrified Forest. Robert Sherwood is credited as author.

A major dramatic anthology adapting popular motion pictures and stage works for radio, usually with prominent Hollywood actors and often with stars recreating their film roles.