Mother Lode

It's Silas McGee's gold. He just hasn't found it yet, although he's searched for the mother lode for more than 30 years in the remote high country of wild northern British Columbia. Strangers with a similar bent for gold had best stay away: folks like that may never come out of McGee's mine alive. Charlton Heston directs from a script by Fraser Heston and plays the double roles of mad recluse Silas and his even stranger twin Ian, in this gritty survival adventure. Nick Mancuso and Academy Award-winner Kim Basinger, in one of her earlier film roles, play the duo who while searching for a missing friend, end up in McGee's world after their aircraft crashes in a mountain lake... and who find much greater trouble when they begin to suspect his claim could hold a fortune. (Cinemax)