Film

Walk Proud 1979

102 min TMDB 5.4 Drama Romance

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.

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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

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