Beautiful, moving film.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Not to be confused with the 2005 Johnny Cash biopic "Walk The Line", this 1970 film directed by John Frankenheimer tells the story of a middle-aged, small-town sheriff, Henry Tawes (Gregory Peck) , who finds himself becoming increasingly disillusioned with his life as a husband and father, and coming to resent his humdrum existence. It could also be argued that he is entering a mid-life crisis, and one day, he stops the daughter of a local moonshiner (played by Ralph Meeker), pretty Alma McCain (Tuesday Weld) and her younger brother for driving without a permit. Captivated by her beauty, he begins a secret affair with her, all the while turning a blind eye to her family's illegal activities. Things become increasingly out of hand as inspectors begin to investigate the goings on in town and Henry's devious deputy (Charles Durning) discovers the liaison and the McCain family's profession. Henry also finds his distraught wife (Estelle Parsons) has also discovered the affair, and he decides to throw all caution to the wind and run away with Alma. Torn between her affection for Henry and her loyalty to her family, Alma's choice and Henry's recklessness result in tragedy and heartbreak.This movie was very much overlooked when it was first released, but it is a good flick and the performances are superb. The production was shot mainly on location in Tennessee and Johnny Cash provides the soundtrack. This role was a very different one for Gregory Peck, especially at this stage of his career, but he embodies the tightly-wound sheriff expertly. Tuesday Weld is convincing and captivating as a young woman caught in a way of life that not only limits her opportunities but also her choices. Used by her father to keep Henry smitten in order to keep the family business secret, she makes the only choice she feels she can make, but not without cost to Henry.Columbia released the movie on DVD a few years back, and it is unforgivably very bare-bones (there isn't even a menu), but it is in widescreen and the transfer looks wonderful, capturing the bleak yet lush countryside.If you're a fan of Gregory Peck and Tuesday Weld, this is a film that must be viewed.

This movie was filmed in a small un-incorprated town in Overton County Tennessee called Davidson (not to be confused with Davidson County.) It is close to Wilder Tennessee, I went to school in Both Davidson and Wilder.When they came to film the movie the town is so small that we were in their way trying to see Gregory and Tuesday. The directors paid us 5 dollars each to run around an old house and told us we were going to be in the movie, just to get rid of us because we kept trying to get in front of the camera.Well 5 dollars was a lot so we ran for a while. When the movie came out we were very disappointed that we were not in it.They did however have my Grandfather rocking on the porch at the end of the movie, in an old fashion wooden rocking chair. the old grey haired man. his name was Paul Brown, nick name Shird Brown cause his middle name was Shirely.My grandfather is dead now but we always have the movie to remember him by, we fast forward past it to the end so we can see him alive.I give my thanks to the directors, they however never even paid him or told him he was going to be in the film.But they did film it where I grew up.Oh how I wish I was that age again.Richard Golden from Davidson Tennessee originally.

A totally under-appreciated and unseen film (except for some Gregory Peck fans) with Estelle Parsons and Ralph Meeker and the glorious totally bashed actress (in movies since age 12) and this is AFTER Pretty Poison, a witty and insightful script directed by (apparently a one-shot guy, Noel Black) that nobody got to see!1970 was a great year for films and this didn't make my top TEN, but it's very interesting...with a moral that actually plays out in a semi-realistic and human AMERICAN way, but unfortunately, it was considered drive-in fare by whatever studio released it. Try to find this one. It's like Deliverance combined with Love with the Proper Stranger and it's quite unique, mainly because of Tuesday Weld's performance. An 8 out of 10 in a very good year. Best performance = T. Weld.

It may have seemed at the time a novel idea to pair Gregory Peck slightly past his prime, with Tuesday Weld on the brink of womanhood. The assumption being that there would be an intriguing chemistry between these polar characters, who both in life and on screen symbolize solid upright morals versus the wild spirit of youth.The film could only have worked had this assumption be proved true. Unfortunately this totally backfired entirely due to Gregory Peck whose tendency towards wooden acting has never been more evident. He is simply hopeless in the role. Director John Frankenheimer amongst his many misses in the latter part of his patchy career has been known to elicit some truly memorable performances from his actors. He is at a total loss with Peck, who makes what should have been a conflicted interested character, a hollow, vacuous entity. Tuesday Weld, never more beautiful, is as always, terrific. Whereas she gives herself completely in each scene, Peck is less than half hearted about the whole thing. No matter how convincing a performance, it needs the interaction of the other players to be fully realized. You cannot go it alone. Weld does her best, but Peck is an unwilling or incapable partner. He simply should have turned down this one. In an interview Weld mentions that in what was supposed to be an erotic love scene, Peck insisted on keeping his shoes on in bed; need one say more? There are what seem to be pointless and endless shots of the rural south to the songs of Johnny Cash, which serve as "fillers" for the directionless narrative. There's good support from Estelle Parsons and Ralph Meeker, but the boring (and probably bored) Peck deflates everything, leaving a film of missed opportunities.