The sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds was an Alan Smithee joint. The pantheon of bad directors is full guys whose films are executed with endearing ineptitude–you know, your Tommy Wiseaus and Ed ...

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 ...

Director Alan Smithee comes to Hollywood to make a movie. Due to a variety of factors, he decides to disown it and direct it under a pseudonym. Unfortunately, the Director's Guild requires that if a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alan Smithee was a loophole that allowed filmmakers to remove their names from movies. To use it, DGA members had to prove to a ...

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 ...

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 ...