: Inside the precinct, a newly promoted CHP Lieutenant, Ethan Bishop (Austin Stoker), is forced to team up with two convicted murderers, Napoleon Wilson (Darwin Joston) and Wells (Tony Burton), to survive the night.
(1976) is a landmark independent action thriller written, directed, scored, and edited by John Carpenter . Often described as a modern-day urban Western, the film is a stylized "siege movie" that blends the structure of Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo with the relentless tension of George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead . Plot Overview Assault on Precinct 13
: The siege is triggered when a civilian, Lawson, flees into the station after killing a gang member in retaliation for the murder of his young daughter. : Inside the precinct, a newly promoted CHP