Clint Eastwood in the 1990s Cannes Film Festival. Jeanne Moreau commented, "Its remarkable that a man so important in European cinema has found the time to come here and spend twelve days watching movies with us". The jury included two people Eastwood knew well: Catherine Deneuve, with whom he had an affair back in the mid-1960s, and Lalo Schifrin, who had composed most of the jazz tracks to his "Dirty Harry" films. 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
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