Walk Proud
15/06/1979
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.
Movie Information
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
Lawrence Pressman
as Henry Lassiter
Domingo Ambriz
as Cowboy
Brad Sullivan
as Jerry Kelsey
Irene DeBari
as Mrs. Mendez
Panchito Gómez
as Manuel
