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I Walk the Line

Drama

I Walk the Line

Sheriff Tawes walks the line between duty and desire, between law and violence, between honor and shame

5.9(50) 11/18/1970 1h 37m
Drama

Henry Tawes, a middle-aged sheriff in a rural Tennessee town, is usually the first man to criticize others for their bad behavior. Miserable in his marriage, Henry falls in love with teenage seductress Alma, who is the daughter of local criminal and moonshiner Carl McCain. Henry's moral character comes further into question when he is tempted to conceal Carl's crimes in order to prolong his relationship with Alma.

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Top Cast

Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck

Sheriff Henry Tawes

Tuesday Weld

Tuesday Weld

Alma McCain

Estelle Parsons

Estelle Parsons

Ellen Haney

Ralph Meeker

Ralph Meeker

Carl McCain

Charles Durning

Charles Durning

Wylie Hunnicutt

JD

Jeff Dalton

Clay McCain

FM

Freddie McCloud

Buddy McCain

JR

Jane Rose

Elsie

Directed by

John Frankenheimer

Production

Reviews

Wuchak

7/10

10/19/2020

_**How a man becomes a loaf of bread**_ Not to be confused with the 2005 biopic of Johnny Cash (although the soundtrack features several Cash songs), "I Walk the Line" (1970) stars Gregory Peck as a taciturn Appalachian sheriff who suffers a mid-life crisis and falls for some pretty young thang (Tuesday Weld), the daughter of a generational moonshiner. The sheriff turns a blind eye and everything's fine, but for how long? You can't go wrong with Gregory Peck. Although I've only seen about a dozen of his movies over the years he's always been an unvoiced favorite of mine. He's tall, (seemingly) noble, masculine, likable, determined and just has an unshowy star quality. Here he plays his usual self with the exception that, facing a mid-life crisis, he makes dubious choices and hurts th

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