Walk Proud

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

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.

• Release date
• June 15, 1979
• Runtime
• 102 min
• Genres
• Drama, Romance
• Director
• Robert L. Collins

Cast

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