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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Gregory Peck
Sheriff Henry Tawes
Tuesday Weld
Alma McCain
Estelle Parsons
Ellen Haney
Ralph Meeker
Carl McCain
Charles Durning
Wylie Hunnicutt
Jeff Dalton
Clay McCain
Freddie McCloud
Buddy McCain
Jane Rose
Elsie
J.C. Evans
Grandpa Tawes
Margaret A. Morris
Sybil Tawes
Director
John Frankenheimer
Tagline
"Sheriff Tawes walks the line between duty and desire, between law and violence, between honor and shame"
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$4,000,000
Production
Atticus, John Frankenheimer Productions Inc., Edward Lewis Productions, Halcyon Productions, Columbia Pictures
Wuchak
October 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 everythi...
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