
Walk Proud
A earnest, conflicted coming-of-age drama about a young man torn between loyalty and a way out.
- Directed by
- Robert L. Collins
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Starring
- Robby Benson, Sarah Holcomb, Henry Darrow
- Tagline
- He was tough enough for the streets... was he tough enough to leave them?
- Overview
- 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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- Directed by
- Robert L. Collins
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Starring
- Robby Benson, Sarah Holcomb, Henry Darrow












