Film

Walk Proud

1979 · 1h 42m · Drama · Romance

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

IMDb

5.4

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.

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

• Robert L. CollinsDirector
• Evan HunterWriter
• Lawrence TurmanProducer
• Bobby ByrneDirector of Photography
• Robby BensonOriginal Music Composer
• Don PeakeOriginal Music Composer
• Douglas StewartEditor
• Michael ChinichCasting

Release date

June 15, 1979

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

PG

Genres

Drama, Romance

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