The Desperados is a 1969 American Western film directed by Henry Levin and starring Vince Edwards and Jack Palance.

A ruthless preacher, Parson Josiah Galt, leads a band of Southern marauders during the Civil War that includes his sons, David, Adam and Jacob.

When his brother Adam tries to rape a girl in a Kansas town that the Galts have just raided and looted, David tries to leave.

Managing to escape, David returns to his wife Laura and son Pauly and relocates in Texas under a false name.

Parson Galt and son Jacob exact revenge by taking Laura and Pauly captive and then kill David's wife.