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.

Genres: Drama, Romance

Stars: Robby Benson, Sarah Holcomb, Henry Darrow, Pepe Serna, Trinidad Silva

Release Date: 1979-06-15

Country: United States of America

Ratings: 5.4 / 10 (7 votes)

Runtime: 102 mins