Clint Eastwood in the 1990s Clint Eastwood in the 1990s Clint Eastwood directed the film "White Hunter Black Heart", an adaptation of Peter Viertel's "roman à clef" about John Huston and the making of the classic film "The African Queen". The film received some critical attention but only had a limited release and earned just $8.4 million. In 1993, Eastwood played Frank Horrigan, a guilt-ridden Secret Service agent in the CIA thriller "In the Line of Fire", co-starring John Malkovich and Rene Russo and directed by Wolfgang Petersen. Eastwood's character, Horrigan, is haunted by his failure to react in time to save John F. Kennedy's
Clint Eastwood in the 1950s Brinks robbery that would mark the debut of actor Sal Mineo. Director Joseph Pevney was not impressed by his acting and rejected him for any role. Later he tried out for "Brigadoon", "The Constant Nymph", "Bengal Brigade" and "The Seven Year Itch" in May 1954, "Sign of the Pagan" (June), "Smoke Signal" (August) and "Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops" (September), all without success. Eastwood was eventually given a minor role by director Jack Arnold in the film "Revenge of the Creature", a film set in the Amazon jungle, which was the sequel to "The Creature from the Black