The Desperate Mission

Free Western Movie: The Desperate Mission - Cowboy Movie - 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.

The Desperate Mission(1969)
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writers: Richard Collins (created by), Jack Guss (created by)
Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Slim Pickens, Roosevelt Grier
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Western
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 20 November 1969 (USA)
Also Known As: Le Rebelle
Filming Locations: Durango, Mexico

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.

Reviews:
“Released theatrically in Mexico in 1969 (and on TV in America in 1971) and directed by Earl Bellamy, “The Desperate Mission” is an American Western released to TV starring Ricardo Montalban as Joaquin Murrieta, the real-life ‘Mexican Robin Hood’ who was the inspiration for Johnston McCulley’s Zorro. The movie focuses on Murrieta just after losing his land, his wife and everything else. Disillusioned, he joins a dubious band of Americans hired by a wealthy man (Anthony Caruso) to escort his beautiful wife (Ina Balin) away from the lawless countryside to safety in San Francisco, but more’s going on than meets the eye. Earl Holliman, Jim McMullan, Slim Pickens and Roosevelt Grier play members of the gang whereas Miriam Colon plays a spiritual senorita who’s along for the ride.

Depending on one’s point of view, Murrieta was either an infamous bandit or a Mexican hero. So many tales have been birthed around him that it is hard to disentangle the fantastical from the factual. Some evidence suggests that he wasn’t one man, but rather three to five, whose exploits were combined. Coinciding with “The Desperate Mission,” there’s a general consensus that gringos drove Murrieta from a lucrative California mining claim in the mid-1800s and, in succession, his wife was ravished, his sibling lynched, and Juaquin himself horsewhipped. From there, the story that the movie conveys is pretty much fictional or, at best, speculative.

The history of “The Desperate Mission”—shot in Mexico and released theatrically there—shows that it’s not some ordinary TV Western. It may not be a big-budget Western like the contemporaneous “The Wild Bunch,” but it ain’t no cheapo TV flick either. In any case, Ricardo shines as the protagonist and easily carries the movie. Despite Murrieta’s embittered disillusionment you can tell he’s a noble man underneath and definitely doesn’t fit in with trash like Shad Clay (Holliman). Speaking of Clay, you know he’s a snake from the get-go, albeit a snake with charm. They’re easy to spot if you know what to look for. Likable Rosey Grier has an interesting peripheral role. In fact, the supporting characters in general are well-defined and performed adeptly by the actors. The story is engaging because it’s about finding yourself after being momentarily lost, not to mention the courage to stand up for what’s right, and then follow through.” Written by Wuchakk on IMDb.com.

Also Known As (AKA):
(original title): The Desperate Mission
Belgium (French title): Le Rebelle
Belgium (Flemish title): De Rebel
Canada (English title): The Desperate Mission
Canada (French title): Le Rebelle
France: Le Rebelle
Italy: La mano della vendetta
Romania: Misiunea disperata
USA (alternative title): Joaquin Murietta
West Germany: Das Gold der Madonna

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