I've been watching the first 'Rambo' film ("First Blood") again recently and have once again been amazed at how effective the sequence is where John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is trapped in the disused mine, and has to find a way out. It is easily the best-filmed sequence I've ever seen where a mine has appeared in a feature film, certainly the most realistic one.

Has anyone else seen it, and what do they think of it as a realistic portrayal of a disused mine on film?

The underground sequences in Edge of Darkness. Filmed in Gwynfynydd and Manod.

The BBC should have given up making dramas after making that one. Never been bettered 😉

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Have you seen " Motherlode " with Charlton Heston, Crap film but some good underground exploration/ SRT shots!!

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gold with roger moor some good underground bits in that

Love that one!

The film that changed my life was Hammond Innes - Golden Soak. I saw it as a 23 year old - in the opening sequences the mine is going bust - it was filmed in the assay house at Geevor - and at one point you just catch a glimpse of Jack Trembarth walking past the window - the assayer I think, for Geevor in those days... Then it switches to Australia - filmed in Broken Hill, but in the book it's the Western Australian nickel boom. I just had to go there. A month after I saw it, I was on a one way ticket to Perth, and a week after that was mine geologist taking the first bucket load out of the Great Boulder Opencut - now the Kalgoorlie Super Pit about 3 miles long. My life after that was a dream that most people could never even dream of - Africa, China, South America, India, Canada, USA - living and working in some of the most famous mines in the world.

I've been very lucky - All thanks to a TV film called Golden Soak...

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I did enjoy Gold - wonderful bit of hokum. Loved the scenes of water rushing everywhere underground.

I did the 'one way ticket with hard hat in bag' thing in the late 70s, in my case it was Aberdeen and the North Sea. On the whole it's been a lot of fun, I've seen the world, and I've even made a few bob at times.

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In a film called The McKenzie Break, there is a sequence where a truck is sent down a shaft at a mine..the mine is Tankardstown... Heron Shaft I think..the truck is still there. good story too

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