Assault on Precinct 13 - videos, teasers and stills from filming
All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "Assault on Precinct 13"
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
Timing:
1:31 (91 min)
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What's left behind the scenes
- After the release of 'Dark Star' (1974), a group of investors gave John Carpenter carte blanche to direct any film, provided the budget did not exceed a certain amount. Although Carpenter wanted to make a Western, he understood that he did not have enough financial resources to realize it. Therefore, he created 'Assault on Precinct 13' as a stylized modern Western, which can be considered a remake of 'Rio Bravo' (1959) to some extent.
- In the film, the siege takes place not of the thirteenth, but of the fourteenth police station.
- John Carpenter played one of the many bandits trying to break into the police station through the windows.
- The new police station address – 1977 Ellendale Place (which can be seen on a wooden sign in front of the station) – exactly matches the real address where John Carpenter lived when he first came to Los Angeles.
- The character of Darwin Joston, Napoleon Wilson, is partly based on the character of Charles Bronson in the film *Once Upon a Time in the West* (1968).
- The ratings board intended to give the film an 'X' rating if the ice cream truck scene wasn't cut. The distribution company advised John Carpenter to submit a version with the scene removed to the 'MPAA' to get an 'R' rating, but to release the uncut version in theaters. The trick worked.
- According to John Carpenter, the film's music was written under the influence of Lalo Schifrin's compositions for *Dirty Harry* (1971) and Led Zeppelin's song 'Immigrant Song'.
- The story told by Ethan Bishop (Austin Stoker) about his father sending him to the police station at the age of six with a note actually happened to Alfred Hitchcock. This can be read in François Truffaut's book *Hitchcock*.
- The shooting period lasted 20 days.
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