
Walk Proud
Drama · Romance
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.
Top Cast


Robby Benson
Robby Benson
Emilio Mendez
Robby Benson
Emilio Mendez


Sarah Holcomb
Sarah Holcomb
Sarah Lassiter
Sarah Holcomb
Sarah Lassiter


Henry Darrow
Henry Darrow
Mike Serrano
Henry Darrow
Mike Serrano


Pepe Serna
Pepe Serna
Cesar
Pepe Serna
Cesar


Trinidad Silva
Trinidad Silva
Dagger
Trinidad Silva
Dagger


Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Sgt. Gannett
Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Sgt. Gannett


Lawrence Pressman
Lawrence Pressman
Henry Lassiter
Lawrence Pressman
Henry Lassiter


Domingo Ambriz
Domingo Ambriz
Cowboy
Domingo Ambriz
Cowboy


Brad Sullivan
Brad Sullivan
Jerry Kelsey
Brad Sullivan
Jerry Kelsey


Irene DeBari
Irene DeBari
Mrs. Mendez
Irene DeBari
Mrs. Mendez
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