I watched the Clint double-bill too last week and found myself thinking about Easty in his directorial capacity. He's a kind-of workaday pluggaway director more often than not. His films are usually competent and worthy but they seem to miss a spark of something or other. Even with LFIJ, a decent effort (an easily the better of the paired two) - he has highly-charged subject matter, a good cast, decent budget but.. there just seemed to be a whiff of the miniseries/tv movie/melodrama about it, which I couldn't quite put my finger on. Only occasionally (and usually in familiar territory - apart from 'Play Misty For Me') does he seem to break free of this (High Plains Drifter, Unforgiven). As for his non-directing/acting fillums: Leone obviously the ultimate fit, but 'The Beguiled' (a early Siegel collaboration) is a great film as well.. if you can spot it when it pops up at 3am on a weeknight every few years.