A camp my scout troop used to go to had a rope bridge that was re-built every summer. It wasn’t the only way across the river, but it was a lot more convenient than the permanent bridge. And also, of course, a lot more fun. It just had three main cables, with smaller cords connecting them in a V shape. I don’t think they made their own rope out of grass for it, though.
In the small town we lived in when I was little there was a rope bridge. Well, a cable foot bridge. Spanned a small canyon on the other side of town from us. It was mainly used by kids to get to the school next to it. The usual planks and 2 hand cables type.
I only crossed it a few times. Mainly when going with a sib to visit a friend of theirs. It was high and scary. At least to a little one.
This canyon indeed had flash floods. One took out the road bridge next to our place downstream outside the canyon and it was never replaced.
Of course the idea today of children regularly using such a thing would elicit the usual cries of “Won’t somebody think of the children!”
The successful navigation of the trucks over the rope bridge in Sorceror has to be the scene against which all other rope bridge scenes are measured … particularly when one reads up on just how much trouble they went through to film it! 
I’m here – I’m just incommunicado during the day.
Don’t know why the OP stopped abruptly like that.
And the example from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly has been properly identified.
I do notice they use four thick cables as the walking surface, which is a hell of a lot better than two cables spanned by planks.
I suspect it’s also because they have a lot of grass but not a lot of timber.
There’s a rope bridge in “Romancing the Stone” that Kathleen Turner’s character crosses. I don’t think that the bridge collapsed, but she did finish the crossing using a vine hanging down. It’s been a while, so I’m kind of fuzzy on how the scene plays out.
Edit: on further research, the bridge is steel not rope. The entire bridge is falling apart though.
I seem to recall that at the end of The Man Who Would Be King, there’s a rope bridge that gets gets cut and sends one of the protagonists to his death.
I think the OP recalled that as well.
By far the most terrifying rope bridge scene in cinema is in Swiss Miss, in which Laurel and Hardy cross a rope bridge WITH A PIANO. (Okay, it isn’t really that terrifying, but hey, there’s also a gorilla.)
:smack: When I went back to look at it, I had Seven Years in Tibet in my mind, so thought I was good to go. Then realized it was Man and changed my post. In other words, brain fart.
Right, off you go! :eek:
Season of the Witch
The Huntsman
Then there are non-rope bridges that are dangerous:
The Colony
The Librarian
Pandorum
Mothman Prophecies
The Cassandra Crossing
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge, aka “Galloping Gerdie”:
Dammit, there’s another morning wasted surfing TVtropes.
A rope bridge was a key part of a chase scene in Zootopia. Judy and Nick were noticeably nervous about crossing it to reach their destination. When they had to run back across it, the person chasing them leaped high into the air behind them, causing Judy and Nick to bounce on the rope bridge, and then they both deliberately jumped off it to try and escape. The bridge was not destroyed.