Walk Proud
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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.
Details
🎬 Type: Movie
📅 Year: 1979
⭐ Rating: 5.4/10
Cast
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Robby Benson
Emilio Mendez

Sarah Holcomb
Sarah Lassiter

Henry Darrow
Mike Serrano

Pepe Serna
Cesar

Trinidad Silva
Dagger

Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Sgt. Gannett

Lawrence Pressman
Henry Lassiter

Domingo Ambriz
Cowboy




















