{"id":35659,"date":"2024-04-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35659"},"modified":"2024-04-22T13:42:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T17:42:54","slug":"assault-on-precinct-13-1976-written-directed-by-john-carpenter-starring-austin-stoker-darwin-joston-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35659","title":{"rendered":"“Assault on Precinct 13” (1976) written & directed by John Carpenter, starring Austin Stoker & Darwin Joston \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Assault on Precinct 13 <\/strong><\/em>(1976)<\/p>\n

Director: John Carpenter<\/strong><\/p>\n

Screenplay: John Carpenter
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Stars: Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer, Martin West, Tony Burton, Charles Cyphers, Nancy Kyes, Henry Brandon, Frank Doubleday, John Carpenter <\/strong>and Kim Richards<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tagline: A cop with a war on his hands. His enemy… an army of street killers. His only ally… a convicted murderer.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Plot…<\/strong><\/p>\n

After members of Street Thunder, a gang who had stolen assault rifles, is ambushed by LA police officers, the gang is out for retribution.<\/p>\n

Lieutenant Ethan Bishop’s (Stoker) first assignment is to take command of a Precinct house that is being closed down.\u00a0 There are only a couple of police officers and secretaries there.\u00a0 Then a prison transport bus pulls in.\u00a0 One of the prisoners is sick.\u00a0 They want to hold a few of the prisoners, one guilty of killing several men, in the jail cells.\u00a0 What should be a quiet night is turned upside down when a man comes running in.\u00a0 He witnessed gang members murder his little daughter and an ice cream salesman.<\/p>\n

Now the Precinct house is under attack by the street gang.\u00a0 They’ve killed the two cops on duty.\u00a0 The phone lines have been cut and no one will be coming to the rescue.\u00a0 What chance do Lieutenant Bishop, two secretaries and two convicts have for survival?<\/p>\n

Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Carpenter originally titled the screenplay The Anderson Alamo<\/em>.\u00a0 He later changed it to The Siege<\/em>.\u00a0 No studio was interested in distributing the film until Turtle Releasing Organization.\u00a0 They changed the title to Assault on Precinct 13<\/em>.\u00a0 The is a mistake since the police station attacked is Precinct 9, Division 13.<\/p>\n

Assault on Precinct 13 was made on an ultra low budget.\u00a0 Carpenter wrote and directed from a script that he wrote in eight days.\u00a0 Carpenter also wrote the film’s score (in just three days).\u00a0 Using the pseudonym, John T. Chance (John Wayne’s character’s name in Rio Bravo<\/em>), John Carpenter also served as the movie’s editor.\u00a0 The film was shot in less than a month.\u00a0 (Oh, and by the way, John Carpenter also plays one of the gang members killed trying to climb through a police station window.)<\/p>\n

Darwin Joston, who is excellent as the killer Napoleon Wilson, was John Carpenter’s next door neighbor.<\/p>\n

Charles Cyphers and Nancy Loomis would work with John Carpenter on his next film, Halloween<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Frank Doubleday, the actor who kills the ice cream man and little Kim Richards, would go on to appear as Romero in John Carpenter’s Escape from New York<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Assault on Precinct 13<\/em> hit me at a perfect time.\u00a0 It was one of the first films I discovered after getting a VCR back in 1980.\u00a0 I loved the movie then and still do.\u00a0 Your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n

Assault on Precinct 13 <\/strong><\/em>(1976) rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n

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