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"Chuck Norris and Superman got into a fight, and the loser had to wear their underwear on the outside of their pants." Hundreds of such jokes are littered all over the internet, proving that even though he might be the most one-dimensional action star who ever lived (Steven Seagal would disagree), fans adore him. Chuck Norris is known as the guy you don’t mess with, and that’s because most of his movies remind us of this fact. He was like the Jason Statham of the ‘80s and ‘90s, playing the same kind of character every time yet never failing to leave audiences awed.

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Silent RageRActionCrimeHorrorRelease DateApril 2, 1982Runtime103 MinutesDirectorMichael MillerWritersJoseph Fraley, Edward Di LorenzoCast

Chuck Norris

Ron Silver

Steven Keats

Toni Kalem

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I grew up in the time of the Chuck Norris joke. I didn’t even really know who he was apart from the Walker, Texas Ranger guy who Conan O’Brien would pull a lever to get just the most random, out of context clip. I remember seeing the Chuck Norris joke book in a Barnes and Noble store and leafing through it only to find a bunch of absolutely absurd and comically over the top things that Chuck Norris could and would do to you or what he kept behind his beard. It was enough for me to start looking at his overall contribution to film and much of it was action. I found him teaming up with the likes of Lee Marvin in The Delta Force or going up against the great Christopher Lee in An Eye for an Eye. There’s also a great fight he had with...

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Silent Rage (1982)

The first of two Chuck Norris vehicles here is is the fan-favorite Silent Rage. In Michael Miller‘s actioner, a...

What more can be said about Chuck Norris? The ubiquitous ’80s B star, he made a series of mostly bland actioners that would only come alive if the director brought a little something different to the table, because they certainly weren’t going to work with an actor who has the charisma of a constipated two-by-four. This brings us to Silent Rage (1982), a hybrid sci-fi/horror/kung fu effort that is quite effective when it pushes away from The Hairy One’s usual antics. You want to see Michael Myers karate chopped by Lone Wolf McQuade? Step right up.

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I'd never attempt to argue that 1982's Silent Rage is a particularly good movie -- even by Chuck Norris standards -- but fans who like early era slasher film aesthetics mixed in with their martial arts action will definitely want to give this one a viewing.

You read that right -- Silent Rage is a weird hybrid of a film, one part slasher movie, one part traditional Chuck Norris chop-socky flick. It's an unusual blending of elements even by today's standards, but it was downright baffling to most audiences back in the early 80's, when slasher cinema was just really starting to take off.

Norris plays Sheriff Dan Stevens, the law in a small Texas town. He and his partner are called out to a murder scene where a mentally unstable man named John Kirby (Brian Libby) has murdered a man and a woman. Norris and his partner get the killer into custody,...