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Walk Proud

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

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PG 1979 · 1h 42m
Drama, Romance
Starring Robby Benson · Sarah Holcomb · Henry Darrow
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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.

Theatrical
Jun 15, 1979
Director
Robert L. Collins
Producer
Lawrence Turman
Music
Robby Benson
Studio
Universal Pictures
Keywords
gang redemption gang member hispanic mexican american cholo
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R
Robby Benson
Emilio Mendez
S
Sarah Holcomb
Sarah Lassiter
H
Henry Darrow
Mike Serrano
P
Pepe Serna
Cesar
T
Trinidad Silva
Dagger
J
Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Sgt. Gannett
L
Lawrence Pressman
Henry Lassiter
D
Domingo Ambriz
Cowboy
B
Brad Sullivan
Jerry Kelsey
I
Irene DeBari
Mrs. Mendez
P
Panchito Gómez
Manuel

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