| Cuba Crossing | |
| Director: | Chuck Workman |
| Music: | Jack White |
| Cinematography: | Robert Carras |
| Editing: | James Symons |
| Distributor: | Troma Entertainment |
| Runtime: | 92 minutes |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | $1.5 million[1] |
Cuba Crossing, also known as Assignment: Kill Castro, Kill Castro, and Sweet Dirty Tony, is a 1980 German/American international co-production action film directed by Chuck Workman and distributed by Troma Entertainment. It was produced by Wolfgang Bellenbaum and Jack White and stars Stuart Whitman, Robert Vaughn, Woody Strode, Albert Salmi, Sybil Danning, Michael Gazzo, and White's then wife Marie-Louise Gassen.[2]
Hud is an American who survived the Bay of Pigs Invasion and has sworn revenge against Fidel Castro. Many years later, he gets his chance when he is engaged by Mr Rossellini, who blames Castro for his losses when his gambling enterprises and he had to leave Cuba, and the mysterious Mr. Bell, who finances Hud for a mission to Cuba. Hud plans to bring a father-and-son pair of sharpshooters to kill Castro when he stays at a hotel on the Isla de Pinos. Through Rossellini, Hud hires bar owner and ship's captain Tony to bring his men ashore, but the enterprise is fraught with betrayal.
Cuba Crossing was filmed in Key West, Florida.[3]
Cuba Crossing was released February 23, 1980 in theatres in West Germany. The film was released on VHS on April 15, 1980. Cuba Crossing was released on DVD March 1, 2005, initially and recently on February 5, 2016.[4]
. Leonard Maltin's 2009 Movie Guide. registration. was Stuart Whitman in the 1980 film Cuba Crossing.. Leonard Maltin. Plume. New York City. 2008. 978-0452289789. 303.