Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
A highway patrol officer, two criminals, and a station secretary form an unlikely alliance to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.
- street gang
- police
- ambush
- psychopath
- child murder
- blackout
- siege
- survival
- shootout
- gunfight
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Tony Burton — Wells
- Charles Cyphers — Starker
- Nancy Kyes — Julie
- Peter Bruni — Ice Cream Man
- John J. Fox — Warden
- Marc Ross — Patrolman Tramer
- Alan Koss — Patrolman Baxter
- Henry Brandon — Chaney
- Kim Richards — Kathy
- Frank Doubleday — White Warlord
- Gilbert De la Pena — Chicano Warlord
- Directed
- John Carpenter
- Written
- John Carpenter
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 1,252 ratings
- Studio
- Overseas FilmGroup, The CKK Corporation
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
