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1976
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…
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Those who follow the careers of great contemporary filmmakers often encounter an interesting phenomenon—the quality of their work is often in inverse proportion to the size of the budget, especially when that budget comes from big Hollywood studios. One of the best illustrations of this phenomenon is John Carpenter, one of the most talented members of the 1970s "New Hollywood" generation, whose almost cultish reputa…More