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Walk Proud

He was tough enough for the streets... was he tough enough to leave them?

5.4(7)19791h 42m1

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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Language
English
  • redemption
  • gang
  • gang member
  • hispanic
  • mexican american
  • cholo

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  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalPG15 Jun 1979

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Walk Proud was released on 15 June 1979.

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