Walk Proud
Film1979102 min5.4/10 on TMDB
Directed by Robert L. Collins
He was tough enough for the streets... was he tough enough to leave them?
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Robby BensonEmilio Mendez
Sarah HolcombSarah Lassiter
Henry DarrowMike Serrano
Pepe SernaCesar
Trinidad SilvaDagger
Ji-Tu CumbukaSgt. Gannett
Lawrence PressmanHenry Lassiter
Domingo AmbrizCowboy
Brad SullivanJerry Kelsey
Irene DeBariMrs. Mendez
Panchito GómezManuelExplore the crew
- Original Music Composer
- Robby Benson
- Director
- Robert L. Collins
- Editor
- Douglas Stewart
- Writer
- Evan Hunter
- Producer
- Lawrence Turman
- Original Music Composer
- Don Peake
- Director of Photography
- Bobby Byrne