CinemaOSMovie · 1979 · 1h 42m · PG

Walk Proud

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

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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 byRobert L. Collins

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 42m
Language
EN
Released
June 15, 1979
Studios
Universal Pictures

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Robby Benson

Robby Benson

Emilio Mendez

Sarah Holcomb

Sarah Holcomb

Sarah Lassiter

Henry Darrow

Henry Darrow

Mike Serrano

Pepe Serna

Pepe Serna

Cesar

Trinidad Silva

Trinidad Silva

Dagger

Ji-Tu Cumbuka

Ji-Tu Cumbuka

Sgt. Gannett

Lawrence Pressman

Lawrence Pressman

Henry Lassiter

Domingo Ambriz

Domingo Ambriz

Cowboy

Brad Sullivan

Brad Sullivan

Jerry Kelsey

Irene DeBari

Irene DeBari

Mrs. Mendez

Creative team
Directed by
Robert L. Collins
Written by
Evan Hunter
Evan Hunter
Produced by
Lawrence Turman
Lawrence Turman

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