The Gangs of L.A.: 'Assault on Precinct 13'

A man pilots a big blue Lincoln through empty streets. We’re in “a ghetto of Los Angeles,” as an opening title tells us. The man is driving his pigtailed daughter to his nanny’s house. Why does she live in this terrible neighborhood? He’s lost, so he stops to call her from a phone booth. His daughter scampers over to an ice-cream truck that’s parked nearby for some reason, though there are no children on these streets. A black sedan cruises by, full of bad dudes with weapons. The ice cream man reaches for the revolver stashed under his dashboard. A synthesizer throbs. Terrible things are about to happen.