Assault on Precinct 13 is an American action thriller film written, directed, scored and edited by John Carpenter. Austin Stoker stars as a police officer who defends a defunct precinct against a relentless criminal gang, along with Darwin Joston as a convicted murderer who is forced to help in order to survive. Laurie Zimmer, Tony Burton, Martin West, and Nancy Kyes co-star as other defenders of the precinct.

Carpenter was approached by producer J. Stein Kaplan to make a low-budget exploitation film for under $100,000 on the condition that Carpenter would have total creative control. Carpenter's script, originally titled "The Anderson Alamo" was inspired by the Howard Hawks Western film Rio Bravo and the George A. Romero horror film Night of the Living Dead. Despite controversy with the MPAA over a scene involving the violent killing of a young girl, the film received an R rating and opened in the United States on November 5, 1976.

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