I barely remember Rawhide. My step-father liked it. I didn't. But I did see all of the Eastwood westerns. And I also remember seeing Dirty Harry in  a theater.

I was thinking of another movie. I had seen Bullitt several times but not for several decades. Great car chases. This is a 10 minute clip of McQueen and his Mustang

During the mid-1950s Eastwood landed uncredited bit parts in such Z movies as Revenge of the Creature (1955) and Tarantula (1955) while digging swimming pools and driving a garbage truck to supplement his income. In 1958, he landed his first consequential acting role in the long-running TV show Rawhide (1959) with Eric Fleming. Although only a secondary player the first seven seasons, he was promoted to series star when Fleming departed--both literally and figuratively--in its final year, along the way becoming a recognizable face to television viewers around the country.

 Eastwood's big-screen breakthrough came as The Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's trilogy of excellent spaghetti westerns: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).

 I remember seeing tarantula in a theater.