Mother Lode

1982

Action / Adventure / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

7
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 57% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 1860 1.9K

gold greed mine mining twin brother murder

Director

Charlton Heston Photo
Charlton Heston

Top cast

Kim Basinger Photo
Kim Basinger as Andrea Spalding
John Marley Photo
John Marley as Elijha
Nick Mancuso Photo
Nick Mancuso as Jean Dupre
Dale Wilson Photo
Dale Wilson as Gerrard Elliot
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943.64 MB
1280*546
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 42 min
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1.71 GB
1916*816
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by planktonrules 7 / 10

If you have claustrophobia, perhaps this isn't the movie for you.

If you hate tight, confined spaces and they make you very uncomfortable, then perhaps "Mother Lode" is a film you'd best skip. Now, I am not saying the film is bad...but the later portions are tough because they take place in tiny, tumbling caves.When the story begins, a dopey guy sells his house and convinces his girlfriend to come with him into the wilderness of British Columbia. Why? Well, he believes that there's gold to be discovered there and he'll get rich. The problem is that getting to this location is a serious problem...and they almost get killed in the process. Once there, they meet up with a crazed prospector (Charlton Heston)...a man who's been digging for gold for nearly 30 years. What's next? Well, a whole lotta danger and suprises.I'll admit that the film is a bit slow and Heston's performance is a bit out there....but the story improves a lot as the film progresses and the story is quite original.
Reviewed by ma-cortes 5 / 10

Action-adventure set in caves and on wonderful scenarios of wilderness Britsh Columbia

A couple named Sean (Nick Mancuso) and Andrea (Kim Basinger) travel into of British Columbia looking for their friend George. Then their aircraft crashes and they are helped by a fisherman (John Marley). Later on, they find a Scottish miner named McGee (Charlton Heston)who is searching a mother lode , a chamber full of gold .The film is packed with suspense intensified by greed, thrills, good performances and marvelous landscapes. It is a bit slow-moving and a little boring because is mostly set into caverns and only a trio of characters . Tour-de-force playing by Charlton Heston as a dual role as twin brothers who live in isolation during decades searching the lost gold and emerging a violent conflict among them. The picture is a familiar venture with Charlton Heston as starring, his son Frazer Clarke Heston as screenwriter and even his daughter Lydia Clarke Heston as still photographer. It is filmed entirely on location in British Columbia with nice cinematography by Richard Leiterman, though is urgent a remastering. The movie is produced by Peter Snell, Charlton Heston's usual producer who financed the three films he directed as ¨ A man for all seasons¨ and ¨Marco Antonio y Cleopatra. Furthermore, he produced him the motion pictures who directed his son, Frazer Clarke Heston and starred Heston as ¨ Island of treasure¨and ¨The crucifix of blood¨. Nevertheless, ¨Mother lode¨is the worst film directed by Heston. Rating : average but entertaining. See this flick if only to enjoy the lush backdrop of British Columbia. It is only for Charlton Heston Heston fans.
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