Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 film)

Assault on Precinctis a 1976 American action thriller film written, directed, scored and edited by John Carpenter. It stars Austin Stoker as a police officer who defends a defunct precinct against an attack by a relentless criminal gang, along with Darwin Joston as a convicted murderer who helps him. Laurie Zimmer and Tony Burton costar as other defenders of the precinct.

The story takes place on a Saturday in Anderson, a crimeinfested ghetto in South Central Los Angeles. Members of a local gang known as Street Thunder have recently stolen a large number of assault rifles and pistols. The film begins ata.m. that morning, as a team of heavilyarmed LAPD officers ambush and kill six members of the gang. Later, the gangs four warlords swear a blood oath of revenge, known as a Cholo, against the police and the citizens of Los Angeles.During the day, three sequences of events occur parallel to one another First, Lieutenant Ethan Bishop Austin Stoker, a newly promoted CHP officer, is assigned to take charge of the decommissioned Anderson police precinct during the last few hours before it is permanently closed. The station is manned by a skeleton staff composed of Sergeant Chaney Henry Brandon and the stations two secretaries, Leigh Laurie Zimmer and Julie Nancy Loomis. ........

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