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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]
Walk Proud | |
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Directed by | Robert L. Collins |
Written by | Evan Hunter |
Produced by | Lawrence Turman |
Starring | Robby Benson Sarah Holcomb |
Cinematography | Bobby Byrne |
Edited by | Douglas Stewart |
Music by | Robby Benson Don Peake |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2.4 million[1] |
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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