Clint Eastwood would appear with Eastwood again in the poorly-received comedy "Pink Cadillac" (1989). The film is about a bounty hunter and a group of white supremacists chasing an innocent woman (Bernadette Peters) who tries to outrun everyone in her husband's prized pink Cadillac. The film failed both critically and commercially, earning barely more than "Bird" and marking a low point in Eastwood's career. Eastwood directed and starred in "White Hunter Black Heart" (1990), an adaptation of Peter Viertel's "roman à clef", about John Huston and the making of the classic film "The African Queen". Shot on location in Zimbabwe in the
Fate Is the Hunter (film) adjacent 20th Century Fox Studios. Releasing a film about aircraft accidents, especially done in the melodramatic manner that the film employed, led to a curious reception from both critics and public. Bosley Crowther of "The New York Times," simply called it, "a stupid, annoying film". "Fate Is the Hunter" was nominated for a 1964 Academy Award in Best Cinematography (Black-and-white). An excerpt from the film was used in the 1980 comedy film "Airplane!" The film is also mentioned in the 1995 "JAG" episode "Pilot Error"; the protagonist, who is the lead investigator in a mishap, relates the film's plot to