I Walk the Line is a 1970 American neo noir drama film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Gregory Peck and Tuesday Weld.

It tells the story of Sheriff Henry Tawes (Peck) who develops a relationship with a girl in town, Alma McCain (Weld).

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.

After implying that he knows what's going on with her and Sheriff Tawes, and coming on to her, the deputy draws his weapon and shoots dead the family dog in front of her and proceeds to move on her.

In the original theatrical release and the version shown on free over-the-air network broadcast television for decades, her father shoots the deputy with his rifle from a distance on a hill, to protect his daughter from attack.

[1] During the drive-in scene, the film playing is The Big Mouth, but the posters at the theater list it as Hook, Line & Sinker (both were Jerry Lewis movies).

[2] In a December 1970 review, Time magazine summarized the film's main characters:[3] According to TV Guide, "[t]he one reason to watch is the astonishing, unsung Weld, the modern Louise Brooks, who can suggest amorality, skewed innocence and ageless sensuality—she played nymphets through her thirties with infinite ease—that makes Bardot pale.