Walk Proud

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.

Cast

Robby Benson

Played Emilio Mendez
Sarah Holcomb

Played Sarah Lassiter
Henry Darrow

Played Mike Serrano
Pepe Serna

Played Cesar
Trinidad Silva

Played Dagger
Ji-Tu Cumbuka

Played Sgt. Gannett
Lawrence Pressman

Played Henry Lassiter
Domingo Ambriz

Played Cowboy
Brad Sullivan

Played Jerry Kelsey
Irene DeBari

Played Mrs. Mendez
Panchito Gómez

Played Manuel

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