Edward Carelton Swift, at one time the owner of the largest meat packing operation in the U.S. built a mansion, Swiftmoor on Paine Avenue in Prides Crossing. Eleonora Eleo Sears a flamboyant female socialite and world class tennis player owned a residence that still exists where Paine Avenue and West Beach meet.
In 2003, burnt-out ex-CIA(SAD/SOG) Paramilitary operations officer and former U.S. Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance officer John Creasy (Denzel Washington) visits his old comrade Paul Rayburn (Christopher Walken), who runs a security firm in Mexico.
John Deakin was an English photographer, who today is best known for documenting the social circle of artist Francis Bacon, which included the likes of Patrick Swift, Lucian Freud and George Dyer, among others. Because of these associations, Deakin is a much celebrated figure in the Soho arts scene of 1950s London.