The Desperate Mission

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.

Cast

• Ricardo Montalbán as Joaquin Murrieta (as Ricardo Montalban)
• Slim Pickens as Three-Finger Jack
• Roosevelt Grier as Morgan

A fictionalized account of the life of Joaquin Murrieta. A man who has lost everything joins others paid to convey a wealthy man’s wife, and a mysterious treasure, to safety in San Francisco.