Filmmaker Alan Smithee finds himself the unwilling puppet of a potentially bad big budget action film, for which he proceeds to steal the reels, and leaves the cast and crew in a frenzy.

This documentary on the elusive director 'Alan Smithee' was first shown on the American Movie Classics (AMC) cable channel. We learn where the name came from and why the Directors Guild of America ...

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Film credits are often a source of pride for the many people who worked on a movie. Your name listed at the end of a film is a way of saying, "Look what I made!" It's the adult equivalent of your mom ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rumors that Hollywood directors once used the pseudonym Allen Smithee (sometimes rendered as "Alan Smithee") as a way to distance ...

Alan Smithee is an alias created by the Directors Guild of America that allows embarrassed filmmakers to disown humiliating credits. Some of the projects that feature an anonymous director have ...

It's hard to feel sorry for Alan Smithee. He had a spectacular career, spanning three decades of moviemaking with a résumé boasting such big-screen projects as "Death of a Gunfighter" and ...