Have you ever seen an entertaining Alan Smithee film?

Question

Even if it was dreadful

I was aware of that crosstitch

Answer 1

Actually, when Michael Mann's exquisite movie "Heat" was first broadcast on network television, Mann thought that the cuts made by standards and practices were so severe that it changed the tenor of the film. He petitioned the DGA to have his name removed from the TV version and the name Alan Smithee was put in its place. The network TV version was nowhere near the quality of the original but it wasn't that bad either. So Heat is my answer.

Answer 2

No--that's why they're usually called Alan Smithee films. It means the director hated the movie so much that he demanded that they take his name off the picture. The movie industry decided to create a fake name for the director instead. They knew there could be directors named Smith, or even Smithe, so they named the guy Alan Smithee.

Answer 3

One of my favorite teen films - Morgan Stewart's Coming Home with Jon Cryer.

It was directed by Paul Aaron and Terry Winsor and I think they took the Alan Smithee credit because Directors Guild rules don't allow two people to share the director credit.

Answer 4

I actually thought that "The Shrimp on The Barbie" with Cheech Marin and Emma Samms was pretty good.

The bad stigma surrounding the Alan Smithee name is that people expect it to be bad, but that's not always the case. Take the television version of "Dune." We know that David Lynch directed it, but he's credited with Smithee simply because he wasn't happy with the studio tinkering with this version.

Answer 5

Death of a Gunfighter wasn't really all that bad.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064217/

Answer 6

no