# Help identifying a cave flooding scene in movie

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**Created:** [August 4, 2024, 2:13am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/help-identifying-a-cave-flooding-scene-in-movie/7763 "2024-08-04T02:13:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![BMaxwell](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/7993a0/32.png) [@BMaxwell](https://filmfind.me/u/BMaxwell)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2024, 2:13am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/help-identifying-a-cave-flooding-scene-in-movie/7763/1 "2024-08-04T02:13:24Z")

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I have this scene etched into my mind as a kid and would love to find the movie:

It’s either a cowboy western movie, or an old adventure film prior to the 1980s. My father loved older movies from the 60s and 70s, and I assume it would be from those decades.

A group of people are inside either an old cave or a mine. A man, who I believe is smoking a pipe, notices some kind of treasure on the wall of the cave. It may have been a crystal but I think it might have been an old cross. He removes if from the wall with a chisel or a rock hammer and turns away from the wall, admiring his find. Behind him, the wall bursts and a flood of water rushes in, threatening to drown the group, who then have to scramble to safety.

Unfortunately, that’s all I’ve got!.. and why I haven’t been able to find it.

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**Author:** ![casspir](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/8491ac/32.png) [@casspir](https://filmfind.me/u/casspir)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2026, 5:18pm UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/help-identifying-a-cave-flooding-scene-in-movie/7763/2 "2026-02-15T17:18:36Z")

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“Journey to the Center of the Earth” (1959)

It is an **old adventure movie** from **1959** , that is almost the 1960s, the era from which your father loved watching movies. The following are all in the movie (see the video below): **Cave, crystal on the wall, hammer, water bursts through the wall, flooding, they scramble to safety.**

The IMDb page of the movie:

[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052948/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052948/)

You can watch the movie on YouTube below, **the scene you are describing starts about the 0:55:47 mark:**

[![](https://filmfind.me/uploads/default/original/2X/0/003ce470ff56d3b6138c7c70bf16b42a6a968231.jpeg "Journey to the Center of the Earth 1959") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP-Q9wXoVJA)

More info about the movie on Wikipedia here:

> **[Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth_(1959_film))**
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> Journey to the Center of the Earth (also called Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth) is a 1959 American science fiction adventure film directed by Henry Levin and starring James Mason, Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl, and Diane Baker. Based on the 1864 novel of the same name by Jules Verne, it was written for the screen by Charles Brackett (who also produced) and Walter Reisch. Bernard Herrmann wrote the film score.
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> The film was released by 20th Century Fox on December 16, 1959. It was a...