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The Desperate Mission (1969 film)

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Directed by
  
Earl Bellamy

Cinematography
  
Jorge Stahl Jr.

Starring
  
Ricardo Montalban

Produced by
  
David Silver (producer) Aaron Rosenberg (producer) Joseph Silver

Written by
  
Jack Guss, Richard Collins

Music by
  
Robert Drasnin, Lionel Newman

Desperate Mission is a 1969 American television 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.

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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

    The Desperate Mission (1969 film) Wikipedia
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