Walk Proud
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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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Robby Benson
Emilio Mendez
Sarah Holcomb
Sarah Lassiter
Henry Darrow
Mike Serrano
Pepe Serna
Cesar
Trinidad Silva
Dagger
Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Sgt. Gannett
Lawrence Pressman
Henry Lassiter
Domingo Ambriz
Cowboy
Brad Sullivan
Jerry Kelsey
Irene DeBari
Mrs. Mendez
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