Release Date

15 Jun, 1979

Runtime

01:42: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Walk Proud

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Actors

Robby Benson

Sarah Holcomb

Henry Darrow

Pepe Serna

Trinidad Silva

Ji-Tu Cumbuka

Lawrence Pressman

Domingo Ambriz

Brad Sullivan

Irene DeBari

Panchito Gómez

Crew

Robert L. Collins

Evan Hunter

Lawrence Turman

Robby Benson

Don Peake

Douglas Stewart

Michael Chinich

William L. Campbell

Bruce A. Gibeson

Bobby Byrne

Wayne Reed