Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

Assault on Precinct 13 is a 1976 film directed by Director John Carpenter. The film became a cult film. In 2005 a new version followed by Jean-François Richet. The original film from 1976 in the United States was not a success but knew in Europe a huge popularity.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == In a neglected neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles, better known as Anderson ghetto, rule the street gangs. One day there is a huge amount of weapons stolen by the gang Street Thunder. The LAPD intervenes and shoots six of the gang members dead. Due to ulcers the four main gang leaders of the city a bloedeed. This oath is also known as a Cholo. This means that they will fight to the death. Their goal: revenge on the inhabitants and Los Angeles police.
 * 2 Cast
 * 3 Film Music
 * 4 Trivia

Meanwhile a Police Office in Anderson closed. Section 13 is there, but will soon move. For the time being, get the lead until the Department Inspector Bishop is completely closed. When a politiebus is forced to stop with three major criminals, they ask whether the prisoners locked up in the cells of Division 13 temporarily can be. Bishop can give nothing but the three prisoners a cell. Napoleon Wilson is the best known of the three prisoners. He is a convicted murderer to death. Meanwhile, the street gangs engaged in their revenge. They focus on an ice cream vendor who just an ice cream sells to a little girl. The ice cream vendor is shot dead, as well as the girl. The girl's father, Lawson, sees the murder happen and running by. He grabs the gun of the ice cream vendor and shoots a gang member dead. The murder brings him back and in agony it flees to section 13. There makes one just move to the three prisoners back to the bus to leave again. Lawson is exhausted and can no more sensible Word back.As Bishop tries to teach him the light goes out and the police station under fire. Save to the street gangs, eager for revenge for the murdered gang member. They kill a few people including one of the three prisoners.Soon State Bishop there only for and he can release nothing but the other prisoners in the hope that they will help him. Also Leigh, one of the Secretaries of the police station helps him.

The street gangs are constantly and pull themselves back then. They also leave all seem to disappear so that patrolling police cars nothing noted. Bishop, Wilson and Leigh ultimately remains. Lawson is still in coma and no one yet knows that the gang is out for revenge on him.

Penetrate the Office the street gangs little by little within. The remaining trio hides with Lawson in the basement of the building, where they decide to blow up the gang. Just when the pressure becomes too much, with the help of Bishop Wilson blows the mess. the four survive the explosion and notice how there are in the meantime help has come from other police officers. Bishop Wilson makes clear that he finally to an honor would find to join him to step out. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Film Music[ Edit] == <p len="782" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The music of the film was composed by John Carpenter, who also wrote and directed the film. He also stood in for the further Assembly of the film. The Main Title of the film is inspired by Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song . The album was only released in 2003 . ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Austin Stoker - Bishop
 * Darwin Joston - Wilson
 * Laurie Zimmer - Leigh
 * Martin West - Lawson
 * Tony Burton - Wells
 * Charles Cyphers - Starker
 * Nancy Kyes - Julie
 * 1) "Assault on Precinct 13 (Main Title)"
 * 2) "Napoleon Wilson"
 * 3) "Street Thunder"
 * 4) "Precinct 9-Division 13"
 * 5) "Targets/Ice Cream Man On Edge"
 * 6) "Wrong Flavour"
 * 7) "Emergy Stop"
 * 8) "Lawson's Revenge"
 * 9) "Sanctuary"
 * 10) "The Windows!"
 * 11) "Julie"
 * 12) "Well's Flight"
 * 13) "To The Basement"
 * 14) "Walking Out"
 * 15) "Assault on Precinct 13"
 * The western Rio Bravo by Howard Hawks served as inspiration for John Carpenter. Carpenter was a big fan of Hawks ' films.
 * In addition to the Director John Carpenter made also for the screenplay and the film music.
 * The film is set in precinct 9, division 13. The movie studio changed the title in precinct 13, what so wrong.
 * Darwin Joston based his character Napoleon Wilson on Harmonica, the character that was played by Charles Bronson in the film Once Upon a Time in the West (1968).
 * The music of the film Dirty Harry (1971), composed by Lalo Schifrin, and the song Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin served as inspiration for the film music of Carpenter.
 * The anecdote that Bishop in the film to Leigh tells, goes like this: as a small boy, he was sent by his father to the police station because he had cursed. This anecdote, there is actually one of Alfred Hitchcock who as a small boy to the police for that reason actually was sent by his father. Hitchcock told this anecdote to François Truffautin his book on Hitchcock, who then mentioned the.
 * "Son, there is something strange about you. You got something to do with death. " This statement by Napoleon Wilson was previously used by Cheyenne, played by Jason Robards, in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). Moreover, it is also the title of a biography of Sergio Leone, the Director of Once Upon a Time in the West (1968).
 * Several actors in the film are very unknown. Austin Stoker was best known protagonist of several blaxploitationmovies, disaster movies and scifimovies. Darwin Joston was a TV actor and neighbor of John Carpenter.