Assault on Precinct 13 is a 1976 action/suspense film by John Carpenter. The story is essentially Rio Bravo transported to The Seventies. When a soon-to-be-abandoned police station in a Los Angeles ghetto finds itself under siege from a violent street gang, a cop must enlist the aid of a secretary and two convicts to hold off the attackers until help arrives. Remade in 2005 with Laurence Fishburne and Ethan Hawke.