This is a great topic! However, I don't fully remember this for myself. I became an Eastwood fan very early in my life, at around 9 or 10 years old. I do remember that I really wanted to see "In the Line of Fire" in theaters, but my parents asked some friends of theirs who had seen it and they said it wouldn't be appropriate for a young child and recommended that they not let me see it, so I didn't at that time. I remember when I went to visit my grandmother in another state for the Christmas holidays that she rented it for me and I got to watch it! I also remember that I first watched "Unforgiven" went it came on one of the premium channels that we had. I had a TV in my room, so I turned it on at night and kept the volume down pretty low so my parents wouldn't realize that I was watching it! I don't think these were the very first Eastwood films that I ever saw though, so I don't remember my earliest introductions to him and what movies made me so interested in watching these later films. But, "In the Line of Fire" is still my favorite film of his, so it could be that part of the reason is that I saw it when I was so young when I was just discovering Eastwood and his films.