Walk Proud

1979 • 1h 42m • Drama, Romance

5.4(7 votes)

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.

Director

Robert L. Collins

Writers

Evan Hunter

Status

Released