Walk Proud
He was tough enough for the streets... was he tough enough to leave them?
Rating
5.4 The Film
Walk Proud
He was tough enough for the streets... was he tough enough to leave them?
The Story
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.
Runtime
102 min
Released Jun 1979
Gallery
The Stills.
