Walk Proud
5.5
“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.
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Cast
26 people
Robby Benson
Emilio Mendez
Known for
Beauty and the Beast
Severance
Sarah Holcomb
Sarah Lassiter
Known for
Caddyshack
Animal House
Evan Hunter
Robert L. Collins
Bobby Byrne
Lawrence Turman
Henry Darrow
Mike Serrano
Known for
Zorro
The Hitcher
Michael Chinich
Pepe Serna
Cesar
Known for
Scarface
American Me
Douglas Stewart
Trinidad Silva
Dagger
Known for
UHF
Hill Street Blues
Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Sgt. Gannett
Known for
Roots
Brewster's Millions
Robert L. Collins Director · Evan Hunter Writer Robby Benson Composer
Worldwide gross $1.7M · United States release June 15, 1979 · Produced in United States
Box office
Worldwide gross
$1,675,040
Production
Universal Pictures
Production · Distribution
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · June 15, 1979
Theatrical
Denmark
November 9, 1979
Netherlands
October 9, 1980
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