Good Guys Wear Black is a 1978 American action martial arts film directed by Ted Post that has a former Commando (Chuck Norris) investigating the murder of his comrades.
The movie also stars Anne Archer, James Franciscus, Lloyd Haynes, Dana Andrews, Jim Backus, Lawrence P Casey, Soon Tek Oh, Jerry Douglas, and Stack Pierce.
It was released on June 2, 1978.
Tropes for the film:
- Can't Stop the Signal: Attempted, only for the Big Bad to reveal that the only witness who can verify the story has just been admitted to a mental hospital. John (Norris) then decides to settle the matter via more direct means.
- Go Among Mad People: Jake T. Booker tries to force corrupt politician, Conrad Morgan, to resign, but Morgan reveals that their only witness (his aide) is incommunicado in the psychiatric ward after 'going insane'. Booker makes Morgan disappear permanently, and a news report (arranged by his CIA friend) states that the politician has resigned and will be replaced by the aide once he gets out of the hospital where he's having a "routine medical checkup".
- Tagline: "Chuck Norris is John T. Booker and Booker is fighting back".
- Uriah Gambit: The movie opens with Booker leading a CIA commando unit to rescue prisoners of war, only to find the camp full of Vietcong instead. They manage to blast their way out only to find their pickup helicopters aren't at the rendezvous either. Only five of them make it back to their own lines. Booker knows that they've been set up, but figures there's nothing he can do about it. Turns out the people who wanted him dead aren't happy that he survived, which is what drives the rest of the movie.
