SATURDAY, JANUARY 27 12:30 a.m. (ET)/9:30 p.m. (PT) I WALK THE LINE (1970) I Walk the Line is the film that might have resulted if Lolita had been written by Jim Thompson (The Killer Inside Me). It finds Gregory Peck playing a not too bright Tennessee sheriff who falls in love with the teenaged Tuesday Weld (in real-life age 27). But wouldn't you know there's even more complications than their age difference. Not only is Peck already married, but Weld's father (Ralph Meeker of Kiss Me Deadly, 1955) is a notorious moon-shiner. So to ingratiate himself with daddy, Peck arranges to keep the moon-shiner's stills from being found. Unfortunately it's something he can't do forever, especially when the sheriff's deputy is a bit jealous of his boss's jail-bait sweetie. I Walk the Line, which was partially filmed on location in Tennessee, has a literary pedigree just like Lolita. It's based on the 1968 novel An Exile by Madison Jones, a Nashville native and writer-in-residence at Auburn University. No less than Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Penn Warren said Jones was "among the best of his generation." Adapting the novel to the screen was Alvin Sargent who later wrote Ordinary People (1980), Nuts (1987) and Bobby Deerfield (1977). The first thing to be changed was the title. The film was originally titled September Country but was changed to I Walk the Line based on Johnny Cash's 1956 hit song. In fact, Cash re-recorded the title song and ended up with enough material for a soundtrack album. One of the songs from the film, "Flesh and Blood," even became a number one country hit in 1971. Director: John Frankenheimer Producer: Harold D. Cohen, Edward Lewis Screenplay: Alvin Sargent, based on the novel by Madison Jones Cinematography: David M. Walsh Editor: Henry Berman Art Direction: Albert Brenner Music: Johnny Cash Cast: Gregory Peck (Sheriff Henry Tawes), Tuesday Weld (Alma McCain), Estelle Parsons (Ellen Haney), Ralph Meeker (Carl McCain), Lonny Chapman (Bascomb), Charles Durning (Hunnicutt) C-95m. Letterboxed. By Lang Thompson