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
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