Walk Proud (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.
Director: Robert L. Collins
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Robby Benson as Emilio Mendez |
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Sarah Holcomb as Sarah Lassiter |
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Henry Darrow as Mike Serrano |
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Pepe Serna as Cesar |
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Trinidad Silva as Dagger |
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Ji-Tu Cumbuka as Sgt. Gannett |
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Lawrence Pressman as Henry Lassiter |
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Domingo Ambriz as Cowboy |
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Brad Sullivan as Jerry Kelsey |
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Irene DeBari as Mrs. Mendez |
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Panchito Gómez as Manuel |
| Directing | Robert L. Collins | Director |
| Writing | Evan Hunter | Writer |
| Production | Lawrence Turman | Producer |
| Sound | Robby Benson | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Don Peake | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Douglas Stewart | Editor |
| Production | Michael Chinich | Casting |
| Art | William L. Campbell | Art Direction |
| Art | Bruce A. Gibeson | Set Decoration |
| Camera | Bobby Byrne | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Wayne Reed | Costume Supervisor |
