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Rio Bravo
Why this pick
Its small, pressured group holding out in a confined station is a clear structural ancestor to Carpenter’s siege thriller, with camaraderie and mounting threat carrying the action.
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MOVIE1976 1h 31m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In South Los Angeles, a local gang known as Street Thunder steal a cache of assault rifles and pistols. At 3 a.m. on a Saturday in Anderson, a crime-infested ghetto, a team of heavily armed Los Angeles Police Department officers ambush and kill six members of the gang. Later, the gang's four warlords swear a blood oath of revenge against the police and the citizens of Los Angeles.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Austin Stoker
Ethan Bishop
Darwin Joston
Napoleon Wilson
Martin West
Lawson
Charles Cyphers
Starker
Laurie Zimmer
Nancy Kyes
Julie
Tony Burton
Wells
Peter Bruni
Ice Cream Man