Chicano Gang Film Walk Proud starring Robby Benson, original 1979 movie poster

Robert L. Collins Robby Benson

Broadside

[Chicano] [Film] Chicano gang film Walk Proud. University City Studios, 1979. Original movie poster measuring 27" x 41" in vibrant color, featuring a powerful image of Robby Benson with his arms wrapped around Sarah Halcomb.. Walk Proud is a 1979 American hood drama film directed by Robert L. Collins starring Benson, Holcomb and Pepe Serna, along with a Chicano cast. Benson plays Emilio, a young Chicano 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. The film was a product of its time, and opted to cast the blonde hair blue eyed Robby Benson as a Chicano. He was made up in dark face and wore black contact lenses so he would look like a Chicano for the movie. But the film was still groundbreaking for being one of the earliest depiction's of Chicano culture in Los Angeles, particularly gang culture. The movie is part of the popular "gang movies" genre of 1979, which included The Warrior, Boulevard Nights, The Wanderer and others. Poster also features the tagline: "He was tough enough for the streets... was he tough enough to leave them?" Also featured are production credits on the lower portion. Vibrant yellow and blue backdrop with a cast standing on a brick backdrop behind the two stars. Folded, as normal for a poster of this decade, with small quarter-sized tear at the fold, but in very good condition.

Item #20260

Price: $225.00