Walk Proud

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Walk Proud
Walk Proud poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Robert L. Collins
Written by Evan Hunter
Produced by Lawrence Turman
Starring Robby Benson
Sarah Holcomb
CinematographyBobby Byrne
Edited by Douglas Stewart
Music byRobby Benson
Don Peake
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • June 15, 1979 (1979-06-15)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2.4 million [1]

Walk Proud is a 1979 American hood drama film directed by Robert L. Collins and written by Evan Hunter and starring Robby Benson, Sarah Holcomb, Henry Darrow, Pepe Serna, Trinidad Silva and Ji-Tu Cumbuka. It was released on June 15, 1979, by Universal Pictures. [2] [3] [4]

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Premise

A young Chicano gang member in Los Angeles comes to realize that the gang life is not what he really wants but doesn't know how to get out.

Robby Benson plays Emilio, a young gang member in Los Angeles who begins to question his gang life when he meets and starts to fall for a girl who encourages him to try and leave. Emilio, with great pride in his Mexican heritage, suffers a further identity crisis upon meeting his father, a white American who got his mother pregnant when she was just 16.

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