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 1990s 1956 "The Searchers". Richard Corliss in "Time" wrote that the film was "Eastwood's meditation on age, repute, courage, heroism—on all those burdens he has been carrying with such grace for decades". The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Actor and Best Director for Eastwood. Eastwood won both awards000. Eastwood also garnered the Best Director Award from the National Society of Film Critics. Later in 1993, Eastwood directed and co-starred with Kevin Costner in "A Perfect World". Set in the 1960s, similar to "Lonely Are the Brave", it relates the story of a doomed character pursued by state