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Assault on Precinct 13
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Assault on Precinct 13 is a 1976 American crime, action, and thriller film written, directed, edited, and scored by John Carpenter. The cast includes Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer, and Nancy Kyes. Produced by Overseas FilmGroup and The CKK Corporation, the movie was released in 1976 with a budget of 150,000 and a runtime of 91 minutes. The narrative is set in Los Angeles and features themes involving street gangs, police, ambushes, psychopaths, and child murder.
The film holds an R rating and has received various review scores, including 98%, 7.8/10, 89/100, and 7.3/10. It has been distributed by Netflix and is available on platforms such as Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Philo, and Night Flight Plus. The production cost is listed as 100,000, and the film has been assessed under the Bechdel test.
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7.3A highway patrol officer, two criminals, and a station secretary form an unlikely alliance to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.
Cast
- Austin Stoker as Ethan Bishop
- Darwin Joston as Napoleon Wilson
- Laurie Zimmer as Leigh
- Martin West as Lawson
- Tony Burton as Wells
- Charles Cyphers as Starker
Themes
- street gang
- police
- ambush
- psychopath
- child murder
- blackout
- siege
- survival
- shootout
- gunfight
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Ratings
IMDb
7.3/10
58,340 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
94%
Metacritic
89/100
- Year
- 1976
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 1 nomination total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- John Carpenter
- Written by
- John Carpenter
- Produced by
- J. S. Kaplan
- Starring
- Austin Stoker Darwin Joston Laurie Zimmer
- Cinematography
- Douglas Knapp
- Edited by
- John Carpenter
- Music by
- John Carpenter
- Production company
- The CKK Corporation
- Distributed by
- Turtle Releasing Organization
- Release date
- November 3, 1976 ( 1976-11-03 )
- Running time
- 91 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $100,000
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- John Carpenter
- Screenwriter
- John Carpenter
- Cast member
- Martin West
- Composer
- John Carpenter
- Narrative location
- Los Angeles
- Duration
- 91
- FilmAffinity ID
- 561806
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- theofficialjohncarpenter.com/assault-of-precinct-13
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- film editor
- John Carpenter
- title
- Assault on Precinct 13
- production designer
- Tommy Lee Wallace
- executive producer
- Joseph Kaufman
- derivative work
- Assault on Precinct 13
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 7.3/10
- capital cost
- 100000
- publication date
- 1979-03-09
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Encyclopedic overview
Assault on Precinct 13 is a 1976 American independent action-thriller film written, directed, scored, and edited by John Carpenter. It features Austin Stoker as a police officer who defends a defunct precinct against a relentless criminal gang, and Darwin Joston as a death row-bound convict who assists him. Laurie Zimmer, Tony Burton, Martin West, Charles Cyphers, and Nancy Kyes co-star as other defenders of the precinct, as well as victims of the ensuing siege.
Carpenter was approached by producer J. Stein Kaplan to make a low-budget exploitation film for under $100,000, on the condition that Carpenter would have total creative control. Carpenter's script, originally titled The Anderson Alamo, was inspired by the Howard Hawks Western film Rio Bravo and the George A. Romero horror film Night of the Living Dead. Controversy with the MPAA over a scene involving the violent killing of a young girl nearly caused the film to receive an X rating.
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