Walk Proud (1979)
He was tough enough for the streets... was he tough enough to leave them?
102 min
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
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Robby Benson as Emilio Mendez
- Sarah Holcomb as Sarah Lassiter
- Henry Darrow as Mike Serrano
- Pepe Serna as Cesar
- Trinidad Silva as Dagger
- Ji-Tu Cumbuka as Sgt. Gannett
- Lawrence Pressman as Henry Lassiter
- Domingo Ambriz as Cowboy
- Brad Sullivan as Jerry Kelsey
- Irene DeBari as Mrs. Mendez
Crew
- Robert L. Collins · Director
- Evan Hunter · Writer
- Lawrence Turman · Producer
- Robby Benson · Composer
- Don Peake · Composer
- Bobby Byrne · Cinematographer
- Douglas Stewart · Editor
- Michael Chinich · Casting director