⁣Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative.

⁣The 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. The story is a fictionalization 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.

⁣Joey befriends a new boy in school, but the friendship is discouraged by the boy's demanding father who requires his son to spend all of his free time studying in order to excel in school.