"He was tough enough for the streets... was he tough enough to leave them?"15 June 1979Drama, Romance102 mins
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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Heartthrob Robby Benson plays Emilio a young Chicano who defies his fellow gang members by pursuing a relationship with a white high-school girl. A deeply ...
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An original television preview for the 1979 drama starring Robby Benson as an East gang member. Sarah Holcomb Pepe Serna and Henry Darrow co-star.
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