"The cult film ""Assault on Precinct 13"" was directed by whom?"
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 film) Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 film) Assault on Precinct 13 is a 1976 American independent action thriller film written, directed, scored and edited by John Carpenter. It stars Austin Stoker as a police officer who defends a defunct precinct against an attack by a relentless criminal gang, along with Darwin Joston as a convicted murderer who helps him. 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 the filmmaker would have total
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 film) the sale of the script "Eyes" to Barbra Streisand and Jon Peters, later renamed "Eyes of Laura Mars", Kaplan and Kaufman concentrated on just "Assault". "J. Stein Kaplan was a friend of mine from USC," said Carpenter. "He knew Joseph Kaufman from his days in Philadelphia … Basically their fathers were funding "Assault on Precinct 13"". The two families of the producers formed The CKK Corporation to finance the film. Carpenter had hoped to make a Howard Hawks-style Western like "El Dorado" or "Rio Lobo", but when the $100,000 budget prohibited it, Carpenter refashioned the basic scenario of "Rio Bravo"