screenshots / Mission to Glory (aka: The Father Kino Story) / 1976 Coates Blake Production

Based on the true story of Father Eusebio Francisco Kino ("Padre on Horseback"), a Jesuit missionary who helped the lives of Native Americans in the southwest of the late 1600s.

Starring Richard Egan (Seven Cities of Gold), Ricardo Montalban (Fantasy Island), John Ireland (Spartacus) and Michael Ansara (Brave Warrior).

Also cast is actor Anthony Caruso, whose previous screen appearances included Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946) and Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950).

Arizona filming locations utilized the Sonoran Desert, Mission San Xavier del Bac and the San Xavier Tohono O'odham Reservation, Pima County.