The Desperate Mission is a 1969 American made-for-television western film directed by Earl Bellamy. The production was a joint project of 20th Century Fox Television, Montalban Enterprises Production, and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.[1]

Plot summary

The story is a fictionalization of the life of Joaquin Murrieta.

Cast

• Ricardo Montalban as Joaquin Murrieta
• Slim Pickens as Three-Finger Jack
• Roosevelt Grier as Morgan
• Jim McMullan as Arkansaw
• Earl Holliman as Shad Clay
• Ina Balin as Otilia Ruiz
• Robert J. Wilke as Gant
• Miriam Colon as Claudina, Otilia's Servant
• Anthony Caruso as Don Miguel Ruiz
• Eddra Gale as Dolores the Bartender
• Armando Silvestre as Diego Campos, Don Miguel's Man
• José Chávez as First Monk
• Ben Archibek as Frankie Gant
• Pancho Córdova as Father Augustine (as Francisco de Córdova)
• Charles Horvath as Yuma
• Allen Pinson as Corncracker
• Eldon Burke as Galvez
• Barbara Turner as The Farmer's Wife

References

External links

• Desperate Mission at IMDb
• Mission Desperate Mission is available for free download at the Internet Archive

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