NYPD officers storm Skip's apartment only to find that he has died of a heroin overdose. Cleon gives up the other robbers as part of a plea bargain due to his remorse in the death of the earlier officer. Anthony drives over to Cleon's church to speak to him, only to find him being led out the front door in handcuffs by two detectives. Not long after the heist, Kirby hears that Cleon has been giving out $100 bills and has bought himself a new Cadillac that he can barely afford. When Jose shoots the driver, he is hit by the car and killed as the police car crashes into a wall, crushing Jose. Jose gets cornered in an alley by an approaching police car. As the group collects what cash they can from the burning wreckage, they flee and split up to escape the police. A second guard appears and gets into a shootout with Delilah he shoots her multiple times killing her. Delilah saves Anthony's life by killing one of the guards. Jose (a demolition expert in the army) plants an explosive device on the escaping truck to blow off the door, but instead it destroys the whole vehicle. At the same time, Anthony and Jose are spotted by the driver, causing a large shootout with the security guards. The plan goes awry when Cleon is approached by a black NYPD officer (who was also a former Marine) who unknowingly stumbles upon the robbery, leading to Kirby being shot in the arm and Skip killing the officer when Cleon freezes up (a role reversal to what happens to Skip and Cleon earlier). The next day, the group strategically position themselves around the street, armed with weapons and disguised with face paint, ready to ambush the truck. Anthony, Kirby, Skip, Jose, Delilah, and Cleon devise a plan to rob an armored car making a stop at the Noble Street Federal Reserve Bank of the Bronx. After an argument with Juanita, Anthony meets his girlfriend's sister, Delilah, who is now a member of the " Nat Turner Cadre", a revolutionary communist militant group. Farley Building, and Cleon, a religious but homicidal individual that was his squad’s Staff Sergeant, who is now a devoted minister in Mount Vernon, New York.Īfter being laid off from his job at a butcher shop, Anthony finds himself unable to support Juanita (who had an affair with a pimp while he was on duty) or his daughter. He finds Skip now an Agent Orange victim and heroin addict, Jose is an amputee with a prosthetic hand and pyromaniac who now works as a postman at the James A. When Anthony returns to the Bronx in 1973, he finds returning to "normal" life impossible. Once in Vietnam, Curtis and his squad lose several fellow Marines during combat, and commit several atrocities of their own, such as executing enemy prisoners and beheading corpses for war trophies. Anthony's close friend, Skip, later joins Curtis' Recon squad after deciding not to go to Hunter College and his other friend Jose, is drafted into the U.S.
He is sent to Vietnam, leaving behind his middle-class family, his girlfriend Juanita, and small-time crook Kirby, who is like a second father. In the North East section of the Bronx, New York during the spring of 1969, Anthony Curtis is about to graduate from high school, and decides to enlist in the U.S.
The film also is loosely based on several incidents involving the Black Liberation Army, notably the Brink's armored truck robbery. Certain characters from the film are based on real acquaintances of Kirkland, who served time in prison after committing robbery in facepaint. Merretazon), whose true story was detailed in the book Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans by Wallace Terry. As he returns to his hometown in The Bronx, Curtis finds himself struggling to support himself and his family, eventually turning to a life of crime.ĭead Presidents is based partly on the real-life experiences of Haywood T. The film chronicles the life of Anthony Curtis ( Larenz Tate), focusing on his teenage years as a high school graduate and his experiences during the Vietnam War as a Recon Marine. Dead Presidents is a 1995 American crime film co-written, produced and directed by the Hughes Brothers.
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