In the Line of Fire/The Eiger Sanction

Double-bill of Clint Eastwood films. 'In the Line of Fire' (1993) follows secret service agent Frank Horrigan (Eastwood) who, ever since he failed to save the life of President John F.

Kennedy in the 1963 Dealey Plaza assassination, has had to live with the guilty feeling that maybe things would have been different if he had reacted more quickly.

Thirty years after the event, when the U.S. President begins receiving death threats, Horrigan investigates and finds the culprit to be master-of-disguise Mitch Leary (John Malkovich).

However, a simple arrest is out of the question, for Leary knows about Horrigan's weakness and is determined to use it against him in a lethal game of cat and mouse.

In 'The Eiger Sanction' (1975), college lecturer Jonathan Hemlock (Eastwood) tops up his university paypacket by carrying out the occasional assassination.

His latest assignment involves joining a climbing expedition up the Eiger, identifying the Russian killer amongst the group, and then neutralising the threat.

The film is directed by Eastwood himself and co-stars George Kennedy and Vonetta McGee.