The Desperate Mission (1969)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Ricardo Montalban	...	Joaquin Murieta
	Slim Pickens	...	Three-Finger Jack
	Roosevelt Grier	...	Morgan
	Jim McMullan	...	Arkansaw
	Earl Holliman	...	Shad Clay
	Ina Balin	...	Otilia Ruiz
	Robert J. Wilke	...	Gant
	Miriam Colon	...	Claudina, Otilia's Servant
	Anthony Caruso	...	Don Miguel Ruiz
	Eddra Gale	...	Delores the Bartender
	Armando Silvestre	...	Diego Campos, Don Miguel's Man
	José Chávez	...	First Monk
	Ben Archibek	...	Frankie Gant
	Pancho Córdova	...	Father Augustine (as Francisco de Córdova)
	Charles Horvath	...	Yuma

Storyline

19th Century figure Joaquin Murietta is a formerly wealthy and respected California landowner. However, he has lost his land, his wife, and everything else he held dear. Embittered and questioning his previous faith in God and man, he joins a disparate group of men hired to convey a wealthy man's wife away from the bandit-ridden countryside to safety in San Francisco. Murietta discovers that the convoy is also carrying a treasure of great material and religious value. He finds himself challenged to decide what he believes, and what he should do, in the face of threats to himself, to the convoy, and to the people of southern California. Written by Charles Delacroix  

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