The Tin Mine
May 26, 2005 | IMDB 7.9
105 min Watch NowDrama, Comedy, History
A failed engineering student in the late 1940s gets the unexpected education of a lifetime by working for four years in a rainforest tin mine.
Drama, Comedy, History
A failed engineering student in the late 1940s gets the unexpected education of a lifetime by working for four years in a rainforest tin mine.
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