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Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo (sometimes misspelled Murieta or Murietta) (c. 1829 – July 25, 1853), also called the Robin Hood of the West or the Robin Hood of El Dorado, was a Mexican figure of disputed historicity.
Robin Hood of El Dorado is a 1936 American Western film directed by William A. Wellman for MGM.It stars Warner Baxter as real-life Mexican folk hero, Joaquin Murrieta, and Ann Loring as his love interest, with Bruce Cabot as Bill Warren and J. Carrol Naish as Murrietta's notorious partner, Three-Fingered Jack.
The Five Joaquins were a mid-19th-century outlaw gang in California which, according to the state legislature, was led by five men, identified as follows: "... the five Joaquins, whose names are Joaquin Murrieta, Joaquin Ocomorenia, Joaquin Valenzuela, Joaquin Botellier, and Joaquin Carrillo, and their banded associates."
Based on real life events - Mexican peasant Joaquin Murieta and his wife go north to California to prospect for gold, finding only one white person, a marshal, who will befriend them. But after Murieta is beaten and robbed, and his wife killed by bandits, Murieta takes out his vengeance by forming a gang of outlaws who rob the countryside.
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
The rocks were named for Joaquin Murrieta (1830-1853), a Sonoran 49'er turned bandit during the California Gold Rush after his death at the hands of the California Rangers in the Arroyo de Cantua. He and his gang used this region as a base and a refuge for their business of horse theft and robbery. [ 1 ]
They were members of the California bandit Joaquin Murrieta's Five Joaquins Gang and their ranch in the mountains on the Arroyo Cantúa was the gathering place for the gangs herd of stolen horses and mustangs the gang would organize for the drive down to their ranch in Sonora, Mexico for later sale. [6]: 96, 97, 402–403
The Star and Death of Joaquin Murieta (Russian: Звезда и смерть Хоакина Мурьеты) is a 1982 Soviet musical drama film directed by Vladimir Grammatikov. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Plot