Walk Proud
He was tough enough for the streets... was he tough enough to leave them?
19791h 42mNo ratings yet
- Drama
- Romance
Overview
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.
Keywords
- redemption
- gang
- gang member
- mexican american
- cholo
- hispanic
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 15, 1979
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Universal Pictures
- Cast
- Henry Darrow,Domingo Ambriz,Lawrence Pressman,Brad Sullivan,Trinidad Silva,Robby Benson,Panchito Gómez,Sarah Holcomb,Irene DeBari,Ji-Tu Cumbukaand 1 more
- Director
- Robert L. Collins
- Writer
- Evan Hunter
- Producer
- Lawrence Turman
- Cinematography
- Bobby Byrne
- Music
- Don Peake,Robby Benson
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0080114