Assault on Precinct 13

Cops, secretaries, and prisoners stuck in a soon-to-be-shuttered L.A. police station fight off a horde of murderous gang members in director John Carpenter’s homage to Howard Hawks. When police officer Bishop (Austin Stoker) is left in charge of Precinct 13 on the last day it’s open, he isn’t prepared for the onslaught of a murderous street gang who have come into the possession of an enormous arsenal of guns. Finding himself trapped in the precinct with a pair of secretaries (Laurie Zimmer and Nancy Loomis), a few civilians and a handful of prisoners, Bishop is unable to call for help because the phones have already been disconnected and the precinct is in a run-down, out-of-the-way neighborhood. Holding out for a rescue, he and his fellow prisoners band together to barricade themselves in and hold the bandits at bay. But as the casualties mount and the supplies run low, they must choose between a daring escape attempt, a fiery offensive, or certain death. The sophomore feature from auteur-in-the-making John Carpenter, Assault on Precinct 13 reunited the director with Douglas H. Knapp, his cinematographer on 1974’s Dark Star., Taut thriller inspired by Howard Hawks’s classic ‘Rio Bravo’. In Anderson, Los Angeles, six members of a tough street gang have been shot dead in a police ambush. The local police station – on the verge of closure and all but empty – comes under siege from the rest of the heavily armed gang. Can the few occupants who remain – one cop, two secretaries, and two death-row prisoners – hold out until help comes?, Cops, secretaries and prisoners are trapped in a soon-to-be-shuttered Los Angeles police station and forced to fight off a horde of murderous gang members who are heavily armed., John Carpenter’s second feature is a stylishly straightforward thriller in which cops and cons are trapped in a small LA precinct police station by a heavily armed gang gunning for one of the suspects being held inside. Edge-of-seat stuff with Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston and Laurie Zimmer holding the fort superbly., Cops, secretaries and prisoners are trapped in a Los Angeles police station and forced to fight off murderous gang members who are heavily armed., Taut thriller inspired by Howard Hawks’s ‘Rio Bravo’. In Anderson, Los Angeles, six members of a tough street gang have been shot dead in a police ambush. The local police station – on the verge of closure and all but empty – comes under siege from the rest of the heavily armed gang. Can the few occupants who remain – one cop, two secretaries, and two death-row prisoners – hold out until help comes?