Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
Directed by John Carpenter
A highway patrol officer, two criminals, and a station secretary form an unlikely alliance to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.
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(The plot is lifted from Rio Bravo and the editing is credited to one "John T. Chance"—the name of John Wayne's character in the same film.)
Often described as a melding of Howard Hawks' "Rio Bravo" and George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead", this is one of the ultimate siege movies.
John Carpenter is a master of action, science fiction, horror, and molds his own version of a “Rio Bravo” in “Assault on Precinct 13,” an exceptional, exciting, and sometimes creepy tale about a relentless gang out for blood on a small group of officers and secretaries in an abandoned precinct.
It's Carpenter's unofficial remake of Howard Hawks' great Western, Rio Bravo; Carpenter revisited the same story in a slightly different form with 2001's Ghosts of Mars.
This film is pure tribute, a fond salute to Howard Hawks' masterpiece Rio Bravo with a healthy dose of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead thrown in for good measure.
This is kind of the B-movie missing link between Howard Hawks' "Rio Bravo" and "Die Hard".
The uneasy alliances between cop Ethan (Austin Stoker) and temporary inmates Wilson (Darwin Joston) and Wells (Tony Burton), and their fight against a seemingly unstoppable enemy recalls 1968's Night of the Living Dead, but it is to Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo that Carpenter pays the most explicit tribute.
Often described as a melding of Howard Hawks' "Rio Bravo" and George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead", this is one of the ultimate siege movies.
Less subtle though arguably more successful than Romero's Night of the Living Dead, the film evokes an ever-shifting political pecking order when a cultural cross-section of society trapped inside a Los Angeles police station wages war against a violent street gang named Street Thunder.
This film is pure tribute, a fond salute to Howard Hawks' masterpiece Rio Bravo with a healthy dose of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead thrown in for good measure.
A contemporary re-working of another Howard Hawks classsic, “Assault” originally titled “Anderson Alamo”, also takes some inspiration and atmosphere from “Night of the Living Dead.”
Though Rossellini's films with Miss Bergman, including "Stromboli" and "Europe '51," never created a popular stir in their own day, they now constitute one of the more moving personal records of a love affair ever to be contained in supposedly commercial motion pictures.
Though Rossellini's films with Miss Bergman, including "Stromboli" and "Europe '51," never created a popular stir in their own day, they now constitute one of the more moving personal records of a love affair ever to be contained in supposedly commercial motion pictures.
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