If you are Clint Eastwood and think about leaving the action genre after decades to be one of the most recognizable and celebrated movie heroes of all time, better to make sure you go out with a bang. Fortunately, Eastwood's last action movie has a score of 96% of rotten tomatoes. Now, with righteousness, the celebrity actor will continue to act in films that have had their own action, but "In the Fire Line" since 1993 feels like Clint Eastwood's last completely separated shareholder and that is a restoration.

After winning the best image and the best Oscars director in 1993 for "Aphogent", Eastwood returned to the director's chair with the "Perfect World", his highly expected directorial monitoring of the "disrespectful", which debuted in November of that year. The crime drama led by Kevin Costner was another critical hit for Eastwood, but it was not the success of the box office that "within the fire", a political action thriller by director Wolfgang Petersen ("Das But", "The Nevering Story"), was just a few months ago.

In the film, Eastwood starred in the secret service Frank Horigan, the only remaining active duty agent, who was part of the details assigned to President Johnon F. Kennedy on the day of his murder. His failure to protect the chief commander of that day drove a chorigan to alcoholism, which eventually cost his family. But after examining the appeal for the tenant who left his apartment, Horigan reveals a plot by a former CIA killer (Johnon Malkovich) to kill the president and see the opportunity to make changes and additions to his past failure. He then puts the president's protective details in an attempt to prevent the mysterious killer plans.

Petersen's tight actor was a hit both critical and commercially. The German director proved to be skilled at such a ticket, directing Harrison Ford in one of his best action outings, the "Air Force" a few years later. However, with "in the fire line", he provided that Eastwood delivered appropriate action for swan, with Horigan being one of The biggest roles of Eastwood. But it seems that the film was not necessarily designed as such, and actually began as a project created for a very different Starwar.

"In the Fire Line" began as an idea in the mind of producer Effef Apple, who has been trying to make the film made since the early 1980s. As a boy, Apple saw Vice President Lindon B. Nsonson personally had a vivid memory of the details of his secret service. Since then, he would like to make a move for men who protect the president and enrolled several writers to happen. Effef Maguier was the man who finally crashed the script, but before the Castle Rock Entertainment and Columbia Pictures agreed to produce and distribute, Apple and Maguire dumped the script around. This included an attempt to sell Disney to the idea for the film as a TV film starring Tom Selek. According to Hollywood reporterTreatment for this version of Seleck-Glumi from "In the Fire Line" was rejected by Disney, before the final script stimulated a bidding war that Castle Rock won for seven figures.

Sekk made his name playing Thomas Magnum in Magnum, PI of CBS, which was moving from 1980 to 1988. At the time of Apple and Maguier it was driven by the lead in the TV film version of "In the Fire", Selek was in the amount of his powers. As such, Disney would certainly be subjected to an action film starring Thomas Magnum himself, but for whatever reason has never happened. Interestingly, this was not the only major role that Selek missed in that decade. Starvalist "Magnum, Pi" was thrown like Indiana Onesons in "Indiana Ons: Thieves of the lost casket" (Even the best film in Indiana Onesons), but his CBS show would not release him from his contract, leading to his hasty exit from Steven Spielberg's adventurous classic Encouraged hasty redesign for Harrison Ford.

According to Los Angeles TimesTom Selek was not the only other Starwar to have a chance to play Frank Horigan. The scripts "In the Fire Line" were sent to Robert Redford, John Connery and Warren Beatty before coming to Clint Eastwood. When the film finally arrived, Sekk himself recently starred in the commercial and critical disappointment that was "Mr -Baseball" and did not appear in another film until 1995.

But looking at "in the line of fire" it proved to be a good goodbye to the Eastwood Action General, things seem to work best. Moreover, the film was critical and commercial success, gross 187.3 million dollars Against a $ 40 million production budget. Based on the critical response, it is fair to say that much of this success was reduced to the fact that Eastwood was The vest. Roger Ebert called the movie "Smart, Tense, Well -Made Thriller" and "The Best in Eastwood in the General Since" Tigrop "," While Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times noticed "the film traded so strongly to the presence of Eastwood, which is impossible to imagine."

"In the Land of Fire" earned three nominations at the 66th Academy Awards: Best Support Actor (Mon Malkovich), the best film editing (COCS) and the best original script (Effef Maguier). On top of that, it seems that Maguier may not have received that honor if Eastwood refused to act. According to Thr, the actor persuaded Colombia's executions to keep the project Maguier after a disagreement over the addition of an explosion to the final. As the writer remembered, Eastwood said, "You will have no more problems than them."