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By David Baker
Entertainment Editor
After screaming my way
through Alien (which will be the
subject of next week's review), it
was a relief to scream my way
through Walk Proud, but here I
was screaming with laughter instead
of terror.
What director Robert Collins is
trying to accomplish in this, his
first film, is a mystery. No two
segments look like they were
directed by the same person and,
as a result, the film has no distinct
point of view toward its charac
ters. Never mind the fact that
several of its scenes have been
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sioien in ineir entirely irom sucn
movies as Guess Who's Coming to
Dinner, Islands in the Stream, Ode
to Billy Jog; and The Warriors.
As the story (or what passes for
one) goes, a poor Chicano boy falls
in love with a rich Anglo-Saxon
girl. Their romance, however,
consistently takes a back seat to
the boy's allegiance to his street
gang, Los Aztecos. Eventually, of
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hackneyed enough, Evan Hunter's ^
script is composed entirely of lines
like "Eeef I steek theez guhn een f
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though, is that the producers f
allowed Robby Benson to play the I
love-struck Chicano. He's almost i
as believable as Arnold Sch- d
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or The Greek Tycoon and The
Jetsy. Unfortunately, Walk
'roud's PG-rated trashiness
loesn't stand a chance against the
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