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Walk Proud (1979)

Walk Proud

Subtitles for: Walk Proud (1979)

"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.

Rate★ 5.4/10 (7 votes)
GenreDramaRomance
Duration1h 42m
CountryUnited States of America
Release15 Jun 1979
LanguageEN
DirectorRobert L. Collins
Keywordsredemptionganggang memberhispanicmexican americancholo
IMDbtt0080114 ↗
TypeMovie Released

Cast

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Robby BensonEmilio Mendez
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Sarah HolcombSarah Lassiter
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Henry DarrowMike Serrano
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Pepe SernaCesar
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Trinidad SilvaDagger
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Ji-Tu CumbukaSgt. Gannett
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Lawrence PressmanHenry Lassiter
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Domingo AmbrizCowboy
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Brad SullivanJerry Kelsey
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Irene DeBariMrs. Mendez
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