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Nora Denney as Darlene Hunnicutt (as Dodo Denney)įrankenheimer wanted Gene Hackman to play the sheriff, but Columbia Pictures insisted that Peck be cast in the lead since he was under contract to them.

Leaving him in the road, alive but badly injured, the McCains drive off. Henry starts searching for Alma and pursues the McCain family, finding her with them he fights with her father and brother, shooting her father, but Alma attacks him with a farmer's hook. As he returns from disposing of the body, he is met by Bascomb, who has found the remains of the McCain still. He tells them to "clear out" and disposes of the deputy's body by dropping it into a reservoir. Tawes visits the McCains to find them disposing of Hunicutt's body. The film cuts forward to scenes of Tawes being informed that his deputy is missing and the McCain family frantically packing up their still. After an argument, the deputy draws his weapon and shoots dead the family dog in front of her. In the meantime, Hunicutt visits the McCain family, looking for an illegal still, where he meets Alma.

She is reluctant, fearing the response of her family, but they arrange to leave for California the next day. Bascomb organizes a search of the county, with the McCains of particular interest Henry also learns from him that Alma is married, her husband being in prison he becomes angry that she hadn't told him, but then they make love and he proposes that they run away together. Henry's wife also suspects that he is having an affair and confronts him. Her family learns and is very accepting of the relationship, appearing also to take his advice to destroy their still before a visiting excise official named Bascomb is likely to find it.Ī deputy, Hunnicutt, starts taking an interest in the McCains. Henry and Alma become romantically and physically involved. Her age is ambiguous, but she is clearly far younger than Henry. He meets young Alma McCain, oldest daughter of a poor family led by her single father. Henry Tawes is an aging sheriff in the small town of Gainesboro, Tennessee, who is becoming bored with his wife, Ellen, and his life. The I Walk the Line soundtrack is by Johnny Cash it features his 1956 hit song of the same name. The screenplay, written by Alvin Sargent, is an adaptation of Madison Jones' novel An Exile.

It tells the story of Sheriff Henry Tawes (Peck) who develops a relationship with a girl in town, Alma McCain (Weld). I Walk the Line is a 1970 American neo noir drama film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Gregory Peck and Tuesday Weld.