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Robby Benson
Emilio Mendez
Movie1979102 minReleasedUS PG
Walk Proud
He was tough enough for the streets... was he tough enough to leave them?
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.
DramaRomance
Crew
Key crew roles and departments.
DP
Don Peake
Original Music Composer
Sound
RL
Robert L. Collins
Director
Directing
WL
William L. Campbell
Art Direction
Art
DS
Douglas Stewart
Editor
Editing
MC
Michael Chinich
Casting
Production
Evan Hunter
Writer
Writing
Lawrence Turman
Producer
Production
BA
Bruce A. Gibeson
Set Decoration
Art
BB
Bobby Byrne
Director of Photography
Camera
WR
Wayne Reed
Costume Supervisor
Costume & Make-Up
