This wealth of "tunnel" movies is impressive, but it occurs to me that they beg to be rationalized somehow. Thinking of works like Gaston Bachelard's _The Poetics of Space_, it seems that some of the "tunnels" we've mentioned are truly underground means of getting from here to there (e.g., in _The Navigator_) while others are only fortuitously so used (e.g., in _THX1138_) and while still others are really caves which can in turn be natural or artificial, useful as prisons or refuges or wombs, and so on. I hope that when the original poser of the question reposts a list of "tunnel" films, we'll be able to get some sense of what the tunnels mean. Kurasawa's erotic tunnels match Hitchcock's in a way, but the tunnel used for escape in _The Guns of Navaronne_, despite the phallic cannon imagery, seems more like rebirth. Should this all be connected with katabasis, e.g., Orpheus, Odysses visiting the shades, etc? Or with the cave of Daphnis and Chloe? Like others who opt for replies to the list as a whole, I want to report that had those replies not come to the list, I never would have stopped to think about the above in any detail. So I too vote for clutter. Eric Eric Rabkin [log in to unmask] Department of English [log in to unmask] University of Michigan office : 313-764-2553 Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045 dept : 313-764-6330 voice msgs: 313-763-3130