Mother Lode

Mother Lode is a 1982 adventure film made by Charlton Heston´s own production company Agamemnon Films. It was directed by Heston and produced by his son Fraser Clarke Heston (who also wrote the screenplay) and Martin Shafer. The film stars Heston in a dual role (twin brothers Silas and Ian McGee), as well as Kim Basinger and Nick Mancuso as a gold-hunting couple in title roles. The movie was shot near Vancouver, British Columbia. The film had a very limited cinematic release in the United States, had a limited VHS release shortly after and was released on DVD on March 29, 2011. The movie has yet to be released in Blu-ray format. When her husband George disappears after a flight up to northern BC's interior wilderness to search for gold,...