Ernst Hemingway's works,adapted for the screen.
For a refresher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category: ... _Hemingway

I like both versions of the killers. The later one w Lee Marvin and Angie Dickenson rivals the Burt Lancaster version for me.

Don Siegel's direction of the 1964 Lee Marvin version didn't hurt either. The Criterion Collection edition has both versions.

Reagan was awesome in the second version of The Killers. It was really jarring seeing him after the only version I knew of him was as President.

Don Siegel had a sneaky great career directing amazing films from 1956's Invasion of the Body Snatchers to Dirty Harry.

One of my favorites of his - Charlie Varrick with Walter Matthau, Andy Robinson, Dean Wormer and etc... probably hasn't been seen by a lot of people who would really love it.

Yes, I've discovered his non-Eastwood career over the last few years and he was amazingly consistent. Varrick was terrific, as was Madigan with Richard Widmark and Henry Fonda. John Wayne's The Shootist.
And the Alan Smithee pseudonym was created for Siegel after he directed Death of a Gunfighter. He replaced another director who'd been fired and didn't want his name on it, not because it was bad (as most uses of the credit have been since) but because he didn't think he should be credited when the other director wasn't. The DGA eventually agreed and so was born the horrible auteur Alan Smithee!
Siegel's very overlooked in my opinion.

The Sun Also Rises got my vote. I'm typing on my new phone as the internet's died here. I hate using my phone to type as much as old Ernie loved bullfights.

I love the Killers but i gotta go with Bogey and Becall.