I Walk the Line

I Walk the Line is a 1970 film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Gregory Peck and Tuesday Weld. The film is the story of Sheriff Henry Tawes who develops a relationship with town girl Alma McCain . The screenplay is an adaptation of An Exile by Madison Jones. The I Walk the Line soundtrack is by Johnny Cash; it features his 1956 hit song of the same name. Frankenheimer spent 1968 traveling with Robert F. Kennedy during Kennedy's presidential campaign; Frankenheimer was a close friend of Kennedy: right before his assassination, Kennedy stayed at Frankenheimer's home in Malibu then... gave him a ride to the Ambassador Hotel, the site of the assassination. According to Frankenheimer , "if you want to date a moment when things started to turn [for the worse], it was after that night. I went through sheer hell. I went to Europe, and I just lost interest. I got burned out. I was really left very disillusioned and went through a period of deep depression. It took a long time to get it back." After the assassination, Frankenheimer spent five years in France, "taking cooking classes and directing sporadically.
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