The Desperate Mission (1969 film)

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.

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

Cast

 * Ricardo Montalbán as Joaquin Murrieta (as Ricardo Montalban)
 * 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