Walk the Line
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash’s life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
- Director: James Mangold
- Genre: Biography | Drama | Music | Romance
- Tagline: Love is a burning thing.
- Runtime: 136 minutes
Cast
Joaquin Phoenix : John R. Cash
Reese Witherspoon : June Carter
Ginnifer Goodwin : Vivian Cash
Robert Patrick : Ray Cash
Dallas Roberts : Sam Phillips
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The film details Johnny Cash’s life from his growing up as the son of a cotton picker in Dyess, Arkansas, dealing with the death of his brother, his drug addiction, subsequent rescue by future wife June Carter, and his famous concert at Folsom State Prison.
The film opens in medias res with an exterior shot of Folsom State Prison in 1968. An audience of inmates cheer for Johnny Cash’s band, which is playing a vamp. Johnny Cash is sitting near a table saw, reminding him of his youth and particularly of the death of his brother.
In 1944, Johnny (then known as “J.R.”) and his brother Jack are listening to a young June Carter on the radio. The brothers discuss their respective strengths and weaknesses with regard to the Bible and hymns. Jack, who is training to become a pastor, and therefore “needs to know the Bible front to back,” is much better at recalling the words and stories of the Bible. J.R., who can sing well like his mother, is adept with the hymns they sing at church. Jack is sawing wood on a job for a neighbor with J.R. when J.R. leaves to go fishing. He is later taken home by his father, Ray, and they find out Jack has been fatally injured in an accident with the saw. J.R.’s relationship with his father, already strained, becomes much more difficult after Jack’s death.
In 1952, J.R. joins the Air Force and is posted to Germany. He seems not to enjoy his time there, but finds solace in playing a guitar he buys and writing songs – one of which will become “Folsom Prison Blues,” inspired by a B-movie shown to the troops, Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison. Following his discharge, he marries his girlfriend Vivian Liberto. In 1955, Vivian and John (as he is now generally known) live in Memphis in relative poverty while John works as a door-to-door salesman to support his growing family (Cash’s eldest daughter Rosanne is an infant, and Vivian mentions “another one on the way”). One day, he walks past a recording studio and has an inspiration to organize a band (made up of guitarist Luther Perkins and bassist Marshall Grant, whom his wife describes as “two mechanics who can’t hardly play”) to play gospel music.
Cash’s band auditions for Sam Phillips, the owner of Sun Records. As they play a pedestrian gospel song (“I Was There When It Happened”), Phillips interrupts and asks Cash to play a song that he really feels. As a result, Cash and his band play “Folsom Prison Blues,” and Phillips accepts it. The performance results in a contract, in fulfillment of which Cash begins touring in 1955 (as Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two) with other young Sun artists. Among those he meets on the tour – along with Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Waylon Jennings and Elvis Presley – is June Carter, who performs as both a singer and a comedian. Read more
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