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1970 film by John Frankenheimer

For the Johnny Cash song, see I Walk the Line. For the biographical film about Johnny Cash, see Walk the Line.

I Walk the Line is a 1970 American neo noirdrama film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Gregory Peck and Tuesday Weld.

It tells the story of Sheriff Henry Tawes (Peck) who develops a relationship with a girl in town, Alma McCain (Weld). The screenplay, written by Alvin Sargent, is an adaptation of Madison Jones' novel An Exile.

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The I Walk the Line soundtrack is by Johnny Cash; it features his 1956 hit song of the same name.

Plot

Henry Tawes is an aging sheriff in the small town of Gainesboro, Tennessee, who is becoming bored with his wife, Ellen, and his life.

He encounters the comely Alma McCain, who is far younger than Henry and the oldest daughter of a moonshining family new in the county.

Alma makes herself available to Henry, a seduction supported by her father and brother as pro