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.

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

• 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

• The Desperate Mission at IMDb 
• Mission Desperate Mission is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive^{[permanent dead link‍]}