Martin Sheen as The Judge ( uncredited).Robert LuPone as Attorney Salvatore Rizzo.The final scene shows Anthony looking out the window of his prison bus.

Anthony, furious at his sentence in spite of his years of service, throws a chair at the judge before being escorted away by bailiffs. However the judge, a World War II veteran himself, proclaims that Anthony has forgotten the values that the Marines taught him and that he shouldn't use the Vietnam War as an excuse for his actions, sentencing him to fifteen years to life. His lawyer asks the court to show mercy, as Anthony served his country faithfully in the Marines and earned a Silver Star.

Kirby tries to distract the officers to allow Anthony to flee, but it is to no avail, as multiple officers corner Anthony and arrest him.Īnthony is convicted by a judge. As Kirby and Anthony prepare to flee to Mexico, police raid the bar. 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 purchased a new Cadillac that he can barely afford. When he shoots the driver, he is hit by the car and killed as the police car crashes into a wall. 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 shoots Delilah 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 entire vehicle. At the same time, Anthony and Jose are spotted by the truck's driver, causing a large shootout with the security guards. The plan goes awry when Cleon is approached by a black NYPD officer who unknowingly stumbles upon the robbery, leading to Kirby being shot in the arm and Skip killing the officer.

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. After an argument with Juanita, Anthony meets her sister, Delilah, who is now a member of the ' Nat Turner Cadre', a militant communist group. Farley Building, and Cleon, the squad's religious but homicidal staff sergeant, is now a devoted minister in Mount Vernon.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 deployed) or his infant daughter. Skip is now an Agent Orange victim and heroin addict Jose, forced to wear a prosthetic hand, is a pyromaniac who 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. His other friend, Jose, is drafted into the United States Army. Anthony's close friend, Skip, later joins Curtis' Recon squad after dropping out of Hunter College. 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 1969, Anthony Curtis, a soon-to-be high school graduate in The Bronx, chooses to enlist in the United States Marine Corps rather than go to college. 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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