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# I Walk the Line

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Product Description          A married backwoods Tennessee sheriff falls in love with a teenager whose father is a moonshiner. The sheriff becomes involved in the illicit operations, making sure his men and federal agents stay clear of the stills. When a deputy stumbles upon the still and is killed, this makes the sheriff an accomplice to the crime.             .com          Definitely not to be confused with 2005's much-honored Walk the Line, director John Frankenheimer's 1970 film I Walk the Line uses the music of Johnny Cash to tell a very different story. Gregory Peck is Henry Tawes, the sheriff of a depressed and depressing rural backwater whose life goes pretty much straight into the outhouse once he lays eyes on Alma McCain (Tuesday Weld), daughter of a local moonshiner. Bored with his job and his home life alike, Tawes may not suffer fools, but he's only too willing to become one once Alma, an irresistible and much younger Tennessee tart (Peck was in his mid-fifties at the time; Weld was nearly three decades behind him), starts pulling his strings at the behest of her pa (Ralph Meeker), who's using his daughter to help, uh, persuade the sheriff to overlook his criminal activities. It's obvious from the git-go that none of this will turn out well for our hero, and while Frankenheimer (who directed the original Manchurian Candidate) and screenwriter Alvin Sargent (a future Oscar winner for Ordinary People and Julia) do a decent job of keeping the tension mounting, the film never quite catches fire. Part of that is due to the measured, laconic performance delivered by Peck, who has a certain dignity that keeps him from really inhabiting his role; much more convincing is Charles Durning as his deputy, a donut-eating, law-bending Southern slug. On the other hand, it's always nice to hear Cash delivering the classic title song, even if his several other tunes featured in I Walk the Line fall somewhat short of that standard. --Sam Graham

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## Customer Reviews

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    Humanistic, Cathartic Allegory of Alcoholism as Family and Societal Disease
  

*by B***C on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 16, 2020*

Peck is supposed to have said, "A good movie was left on the cutting room floor".  I suspect Frankenheimer got what he needed to make his movie, not what the star actor believed best.  The story got to me when first shown on broadcast television. I was around eight.  Dad was a long-haul flight engineer, who I later learned traveled with a younger stewardess.  He abandoned his wife and six children for better part of a year. We lived under threat of repeat. Mom endured pain such as Estelle Parsons so beautifully portrayed in her understated performance.  The myth is living Peck's charactor, not other way around.  His resistance to being challenged, the regressive defiance is identical  to what I witnessed at home.  The maintenance alcoholism and excuse-making connected with it goes back many generations. My parents came from a rural culture in ways like that shown here.  Alcohol abuse warps man's instincts and compel him to bury his secrets, real and imagined, in further abuse. The line walked is that between fantasy and reality.  When an alky drinks, his imagination can take reality to strange places.  I found the underlying story revealed itself haltingly, hauntingly.  I understand now why this movie affected me as a boy, as I was witnessing the story and was soon to enter the vicious circle myself. I felt better after watching again;  not so alone.  3 1/2 stars.Around time I first viewed this film, I squeezed my nine year old fingers through space between locked sliding oak doors separating our living room and den, pressed the button to unlock, and thinking nothing of it, slid open and walked in on my 15 yr old sister sitting on Dad's lap and they mid kiss.  She maneuvered him with booze and music of his youth in order to seduce.  Her power motive was unknown to me at time.  Dad's compliance incomprehensible. This sort of behavior has been going on for thousands of years.  Film is hardly first artistic attempt to portray effects of alcohol on vulnerable psyches and role played by families and society in its often insidious corruption of values.  I am not a prohabitionist.  The trauma and ensuing fallout (years of dehumanization and starvation) contributed to my adolescent abuse of alcohol and drugs.  I was the boy who runs away at beginning of film.  I understand now that motives of my father and sister were distorted by fears they had no idea existed. It was no doubt traumatic for them, shaken from ancient, archetypal sleepwalk as they were. One brother was deputized as the others looked away - self-images were threatened. These things have a life of their own. Our dear mother could not see, having loved us all equally. Grandad had passed away, which didn't help.It is worth pointing out symbolism behind Peck's sheriff denoting expanded territory on map, when deputy and taxman are present.  It is when boundaries break down that these character flaws parade.  Notice consumption of distilled spirits by sheriff during work time - enough to cloud judgment and allow unconscious fantasy to live. The road chase represents lengths an alky will go before compulsion brings him to his bottom.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    This ain't Mayberry, and Peck's no sheriff Taylor
  

*by L***1 on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 1, 2021*

With classics like "Roman Holiday," "To Kill a Mockingbird," and "Gentleman's Agreement" under his belt, it's hard to believe the weakest link in this movie is its leading man.  Gregory Peck seems stiff as a board throughout most of this film, as if Peck the person refused to let Peck the actor take command of the role.  I believe one of his contemporaries--William Holden or especially Robert Mitchum--would have turned in a much better performance.  Admittedly, this could be my own bias.  Peck certainly plays against type in this movie, so maybe I'm the one who had a hard time suspending disbelief and accepting him as a sheriff who allows his lust for a tawdry moonshiner's daughter to bring about his utter destruction.Tuesday Weld plays Alma McCain to perfection, wickedly seductive while simultaneously innocent as a lamb -- in the words of singer/songwriter Chris Rea, 'the most fatal of charms.' Young Charles Durning gives more than a hint of future greatness as scheming deputy Hunnicut, who sets up the dominoes to bring down the sheriff only to have them fall against him.  Perhaps the best performance in the movie is delivered by Estelle Parsons, who 'stands by her man' despite the utter grief and heartbreak he's burdened her with.  Finally, Johnny Cash's gritty, bare-boned music is the glue that holds everything together.Although an interesting character study with mostly fine performances, "I Walk the Line" deals with themes (child prostitution, incest) I don't find entertaining and is a downer of a movie from beginning to end.  I wouldn't care to watch it again.2 1/2 stars.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    This is a painful movie.  I could not stop watching it.
  

*by S***F on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 19, 2021*

I was mesmerized throughout.  Pathos to the max.  This is a man's movie.  For men.  About men.  Perhaps today's young men may not get it but Adult men do.  Cash's song's throughout are perfect.  And I'm not a Cash fan.  This movie is about another time and another place but it is timeless.  Peck's character is every man trapped by his circumstances and life decisions who dreams about another life.  A life imbued with the passion he once worshipped and had long forgotten ... then out of nowhere the greatest passion he had ever known washes over him like a tsunami.  Ms Weld perfectly embodies the female goddess men obsess about.  The poor sheriff loses all rationality and perspective.  He loses everything.  A tale as old as time itself,  told a thousand times by ten thousand bards.

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