billy farmer

I thought i would start a new Thread to see how many films and TV programmes Brit Movie Members can think of that have featured Mines, one of my favourite CFF films Haunters Of The Deep (1984) featured Mines extensively and one of my favourite TV Detective Shows Wycliffe also featured Mines frequently.

Haunters Of The Deep


Wycliffe

catch me if you can, hunt me if you dare!

penfold

Well, Welsh mining communities are the setting for Run For Your Money, Blue Scar, and David; a mining disaster is the climax for The Clairvoyant, I remember an episode of Dalziel and Pascoe being set in a mine....wsn't Poldark all about tin mines???

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

will.15

The Stars Look Down (1939)

How Green was My Valley (1941)

Ace in the Hole

Gold (1974)

GRAEME

When the Boat Comes In
Sam

All men leak.

taffy1967

Dr Who: 'The Green Death' 1973.



The one with the giant maggots and lovely Jo Grant (the 3rd Doctors much loved assistant) leaving to marry some Welsh man.





Just what made her do that?



Still it was very funny seeing Jon Pertwee disguised as a cleaning lady in one scene: -

penfold

He was going to take her up the Amazon IIRC....

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

julian_craster

There are also hundreds of docs and shorts - check out the BFI DVD set of Mining Review shorts.....National Coal Board Collection: Portrait of a Miner [2 disc set ]

BFI Filmstore 12 DVDs for Christmas

Elemental, visual, dramatic: coal mining is not only deeply cinematic, but as a huge part of British life for centuries, has profoundly shaped our society. This collection showcases and celebrates the extraordinary work of the National Coal Board Film Unit - operating between 1947-1984 - producing films to inform, entertain and galvanise working people across the country.

From intimate drama-documentaries and sublime cartoons to the sheer pleasure of topical tales from the Mining Review cinemagazine, this collection is a beguiling invitation into the domestic, community and working life of miners and their families.

With stories from coal-fields across Scotland, Wales and England - from pit ponies to brass bands, cutter loaders to the five-day week - this set presents over 5 hours of remastered material, and contains an extensive booklet featuring newly commissioned contributions from Lee Hall (writer of Billy Elliot), the BFI's curators and other researchers.

'It's a tour de force collection of unusual and recently archived documentaries about the industry...All the films in this five-hour collection are so good they ache for repeated viewing' Ken Russell, The Times

Disc 1:
* Mining Review 1st Year No 1 (1947)
* King Coal (1948)
* Nines Was Standing (1950)
* Miners Health Centre, from Mining Review 2nd Year No 3 (1948)
* Mining Review 2nd Year No 10 (1949)
* Mining Review 2nd Year No 12 (1949)
* Plan for Coal (1952)
* The Shovel (1953)
* Time Out from Mining Review 7th Year No 8 (1954)
* Balletomines from Mining Review 7th Year No 12 (1954)
* Hungarians in Britain from Mining Review 10th Year No 8 (1957)
* New Power In Their Hands (1959)
* Mining Review 13th Year No 4 (1959)
* Stormy Genius from Mining Review 13th Year No 8 (1960)
* Arthur Clears the Air (1961)
* Whitehaven Whippets from Mining Review 15th Year No 7 (1962)
* Mining Review 16th Year No 6 (1963)

Disc 2:
* Songs of the Coalfields (1964)
* Big Job (1965)
* Portrait of a Miner (1966)
* Nobodys Face (1966)
* The First Adventures of Thud and Blunder (1964)
* Mining Review 20th Year No 9 (1967)
* Hands, Knees and Bumps a Daisy (1969)
* Mining Review 22nd Year No 5 (1969)
* What About That Job? (Case Studies for Management No 1)(1970)
* The Bother Breeder (Case Studies for Management No 4 (1970)
* Man Failure (1971)
* Ill See You (Too Late Now No 2) (1976)
* A Beautiful Memory (Too Late Now No 3 )(1976)
* You Pick the Moment (Too Late Now No 4)(1976)
* Miners (1976)
* Review 32nd Year No 1 (1978)
* 40 Years on (1978)

batman

Hammer's Hound of the Baskervilles features a mine sequence and there are loads in Republic serials, inc Spy Smasher. A View To A Kill features a mine as does Gold, also starring Sir Rog.

"Aha Mr Aubergine ... that's where you're wrong!"

Nick Dando

Gone to Earth features the mines at Snailbeach and Lord's Hill Chapel (God's Little Mountain). These have since been capped, but when I first moved to Shropshire, twenty years ago, they were just ringed with barbed wire.

Oh, and Edge of Darkness featured mines quite extensively.

And don't forget Ice Cold in Alex for a famous scene involving mines!

Nick

CaptainWaggett

Penmarric also featured tin mines and the Welsh also have The Proud Valley. The Citadel is about a mining community - are there any scenes down the mines?

Particularly depressing mining films are Germinal and Matewan while Brassed Off does at least have an inspiring ending (see also Billy Elliott).

And there's Comic Strip's The Strike!

GoggleboxUK

Billy Elliot

"There's always something"

taffy1967

Well you would, wouldn't you.

will.15

Salt of the Earth (1954)

christoph404

"The Molly Maquires" with Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Frank Finlay and Smantha Eggar. Its a brilliant cast and a very watchable film, the pairing of Connery with Harris works very well and Frank Finlay is superb as a very nasty police officer. It was filmed in Pennsylvania by Martin Ritt with mainly British cast, there is a nice scene where Harris and Eggar take a stroll alongside a slag heap which has flooded and looks like a lake in a bleak landscape, I guess the films itself is rather bleak, its not aired very often as far as I know.

christoph404

Oh..and just remembered "Plague of The Zombies" where the dead are brought back to life and forced to work in a tin mine!!