Walk Proud

Walk Proud

He was tough enough for the streets... was he tough enough to leave them?

PG 1979 · 102 min · ★ 5.4 · Drama, Romance

Emilio Mendez is a 17-year-old Chicano man in California comes to realize that the gang life is not what he really wants but doesn't know how to get out. Robby Benson plays a young gang member in Los Angeles who begins to question himself when Mendez meets and starts to fall for a White girl who encourages him to try and leave. Emilio, with great pride in his Native Mexican heritage, suffers a further identity crisis upon meeting his father, a European-American who got his Brown mother pregnant when she was just 16.

Directed by Robert L. Collins · Written by Evan Hunter

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Robby Benson Emilio Mendez
Sarah Holcomb Sarah Lassiter
Henry Darrow Mike Serrano
Pepe Serna Cesar
Trinidad Silva Dagger
Ji-Tu Cumbuka Sgt. Gannett
Lawrence Pressman Henry Lassiter
Domingo Ambriz Cowboy
Brad Sullivan Jerry Kelsey
Irene DeBari Mrs. Mendez
Panchito Gómez Manuel

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