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I Walk the Line

I recently viewed this film for the second time, having seen it perhaps twenty years ago. I found out why I remembered it fondly. A fairly true-to-life depiction of a back-hills country town and it's people. The characters are strong and played superbly by the great cast. The cinematography is wonderfully nostalgic. It makes you feel as if you are there, living the story. I remembered numerous details from this movie which made me realize how closely I paid attention the first time around. I've seen dozens of movies in the last year and can't remember half as much about them. Modern movies offer great things with special effects and bigger than life color and sound. Movies like this one are timeless classics without any of the production bells and whistles. Just a good if not great, honest movie.

this is just my own personal opinion,but i found this movie very slow.there's a lot of drama,but not much action.Gregory peck plays the sheriff of a very sleepy town,where almost nothing happens.then he does something which goes against his morals.he ends up paying for it in the end.Tuesday Weld also stars in the movie.i watched this movie right to the end,though i found it hard to keep going.John Frankenheimer directed the movie,and if you like his style of movie making,you might like this movie.for me,though,i didn't like it that much.i've seen much worse movies,but i didn't feel invested in this movie or the characters.anyway,if you don't mind drama,and aren't concerned about a lot of action,you might like this movie. 4/10

Gregory Peck stars in this tale about a man of the law who walks the straight and narrow path of doing the right thing and being a model citizen. That is, until he meets Tuesday Weld, who gives another breathtakingly real yet simplistic portrayal of a young girl who doesn't know who she is. Greg is tempted by her sweet and coy nature and gets more involved than he expected. There isn't really much action in the movie. But to watch Tuesday and Greg together in this otherwise rather low-key and humdrum film makes for something rarely conveyed in 1970s films. At first, once I had seen the whole of it, I had not thought much of it, but dwelling on it, it seems like those mistakes you make that no else knows about. They seem to creep back on you and they're there. They never left. "I Walk the Line" is a disturbing example of life at its most haunting.

Above average movie about a moonshiner using his Daughter to keep the law off his back by using her to strike up a romance with the local sheriff (Peck). Strange role for Peck who normally plays a champion of the people, but Peck does a great job at being taken in by this moonshiners ruse.

Gregory Peck is rather strangely cast as the sheriff of a small Tennessee town who obviously never saw Tuesday Weld in 'Pretty Poison' or he would have given a wide berth indeed to her as the big screen's latest middle aged-man (Emil Jannings, Hugo Haas, Jimmy Stewart in 'Vertigo') to come a cropper through his infatuation with an enticing young blonde. Well acted (including flavourful contributions from a touching Estelle Parsons and and a malevolent young Charles Durning) and enhanced by excellent photography and a vivid sense of locale, "The picture I made", Peck later lamented, "was a much better picture than the one that showed up on the screen", as it was insensitively recut after it previewed badly; with the Johnny Cash songs added in the process, presumably to evoke memories of 'Bonnie and Clyde' and 'The Graduate'.

This is a very good film. Tuesday Weld and Gregory Peck give great performances. Never has Peck's 'stiff' style of acting been better suited for a role. He is wound so tight in this part it seems like he will explode any minute. His eyes and silent desperate yearning when he is looking at the truly beautiful Weld tell's the desperate needs of the man he portrays. Any man above forty will feel his pain and desire...and many his ultimate heartbreak. The original sound track by Johnny Cash is pitch perfect. The last scene of the film is truly remarkable and heartbreaking although it can be seen coming from the opening credits. This maybe Peck's most under-rated performance and Tuesday weld's best.

I happened upon the film on French television. It was very well done. Gregory Peck gave a wonderful performance. The changes in his character and his anguish were felt. I was impressed that in 1970 there was a * bedroom scene. I did compare it to Damage with Jeremy Irons and what they visibly display nowadays. G.P. and Tuesday Weld did a great job without that display. Ralph Meeker was a charmer as always. It does not require an R rating. The incest was suggested in a subtle fashion. Albeit an eerie moment. The photography was very interesting. I am not a Johnny Cash fan but his music was fitting. Loved the film. Azignon

Peck does a nice job playing a middle age crazy sheriff who meets and goes over the edge for a rawboned hillbilly girl. He has a decent, loving wife at home but his discontent with his life leads to his making one stupid mistake after another in not only his private life but his professional as well. Well played out film with top notch performances by the entire cast and a sound track by Johnny Cash which intertwines nicely with the picture.