On this day in movie and book history - The Killers (1964)

The Killers

directed by Don Siegel,

written by Gene L. Coon,

based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway,

was released in the United States on July 7, 1964.

Music by John Williams and Fred Steiner.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Clu Gulager, John Cassavetes, Ronald Reagan, Claude Akins, Norman Fell, Virginia Christine, Don Haggerty, Robert Phillips, Kathleen O’Malley, Ted Jacques, Irvin Mosley, Jimmy Joyce, Burt Mustin, Davis Roberts, Hall Brock, Peter Hobbs, John Copage, Tyler McVey, Seymour Cassel, Scott Hale, Leon Alton, John Barton, Paul Bradley, James Gonzalez, Richard Lane, Ethelreda Leopold, Hans Moebus, Ron Nyman, Leoda Richards, Cosmo Sardo, Sammy Shack, Don Siegel, Ted Smile, Bert Stevens, Nancy Wilson.

Recommended reading:

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

by Ernest Hemingway.

Published by Scribner.

Published 1998.

ASIN: 0684843323

ISBN-10: 9780684843322

ISBN-13: 978-0684843322

Description:

In this definitive collection of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s short stories, readers will delight in Hemingway’s most beloved classics such as The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Hills Like White Elephants, and A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, and will discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection, totaling in sixty stories. This collection demonstrates Hemingway’s ability to write beautiful prose for each distinct story, with plots that range from experiences of World War II to beautifully touching moments between a father and son. For Hemingway fans, The Complete Short Stories is an invaluable treasury.