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- Captain Tony was a charter boat captain, gambler and a gun runner for Cuban mercenaries during the Bay of Pigs invasion. He served as mayor of Key West from 1989 to 1991. He married four times and fathered 13 children. A film titled “The Cuba Crossing” recounts his story; Stewart Whitman played Captain Tony.
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Jul 27, 2022 · One brother would phone the results to another brother in a telephone booth who would signal the results to a brother in a passing car that would drive down the street to the betting parlor where Tony was waiting to go in and place a bet before the race results were communicated to bookies.
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Through Rossellini, Hud hires bar owner and ship's captain Tony to bring his men ashore, but the enterprise is fraught with betrayal. Cast. Stuart Whitman as Tony; Robert Vaughn as Hud; Woody Strode as Titi; Albert Salmi as Delgato; Michael Gazzo as Rossellini; Marie-Louise Gassen as Maria; Edward Bell as Michael; Raymond St. Jacques as Mr. Bell
Tarracino was portrayed by Stuart Whitman in Cuba Crossing, a 1980 movie about adventurers who get caught up in a plot to kill Fidel Castro. Gulf and Western singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, who managed one of his unsuccessful mayoral bids, wrote and sang "Last Mango in Paris" about the tales of Tarracino.
In 1980, Captain Tony was portrayed by Stuart Whitman in Cuba Crossing. The movie, supposedly based on one of Tony’s adventures and how he was caught up in a plot to kill Fidel Castro. “I went to Captain Tony’s, to get out of the heat, I heard a voice call out to me, ‘son come have a seat.’”
Feb 23, 1980 · They both need Captain Tony, Stuart Whitman, who runs a popular bar on Key West who knows the Cuban waters like the back of his hand. Rosselini, to make sure that Captain Tony cooperates has his girlfriend Maria, Maria-Louise Gassen, and her young son taken hostage as insurance.
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Jan 22, 2019 · During the 1960s, Captain Tony became a gunrunner for the U.S. government in support of Cuban mercenaries during the Bay of Pigs invasion. In 1965, a “B” grade movie about these times called “The Cuba Crossing” staring Stewart Whitman as Captain Tony was filmed on location in Key West at Capt. Tony’s Saloon.
To do that, Hudson hires bar owner and charter boat captain Tony (Stuart Whitman, Demonoid) to drop a couple of assassins on the island of Cuba and come back with a box of heroin.
