Short film around 1975 about a pit pony

[mikthemunch]

Can you help!!!!!!



Can anyone tell me the name of a short trailer film I remember seeing at the cinema around the mid 70's. It was the story of a pit pony who lived in a coal mine.

One day there is an accident, maybe a fire or explosion etc. The pony helps save miners lives and you think it's a happy ending But the pony returns to it's undergroung stable instead of the surface and dies....

[Euryale]

Escape from the Dark (1976) was about pit ponies, but a full length film.



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[Euryale]

name='mikthemunch']Can you help!!!!!!



Can anyone tell me the name of a short trailer film I remember seeing at the cinema around the mid 70's. It was the story of a pit pony who lived in a coal mine.

One day there is an accident, maybe a fire or explosion etc. The pony helps save miners lives and you think it's a happy ending But the pony returns to it's undergroung stable instead of the surface and dies....

From the way you describe the plot, I think this may be Escape From The Dark - there is a downbeat element to the ending of this film.



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[mallee59]

I live opposite the now closed Pleasley Colliery and the field at the end of the street is where they used to exercise the pit ponies.

[icestation2]

The first film I ever saw at the cinema - aged 6. Very atmospheric. I have got to get this on DVD. Unfortunately I checked Amazon but it's very expensive. How come this is never shown on TV. It's criminal.

[CaptainWaggett]

Available on Ioffer

[viennese]

Released as The Littlest Horse Thieves in the USA, and one of the first movies I was taken to see in the cinema. Definitely the first I was carried out of, bawling and screaming.



Bambi's mother had it easy compared to the pit ponies.



They don't make bleak, traumatizing kiddie cinema like they used to.

[Flanker]

When I worked underground I was in an area with the old stables on them, we used to go in there for our snap break, the smell of the pony's was still there years after the ponys had left.



I also found my fathers name carved in the rock in the same area.



There is an account of how pony's were used in B L Coombes "these poor hands"

they had a terrible existance with occasional acts of kindness and short times on the surface.