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Allen Smithee

Allen Smithee is the alternative form of Alan Smithee.

Meaning of Alan Smithee

Proper noun

Alan Smithee

  1. An official pseudonym used by film directors wishing to disown a project.
    • I then watched the Alan Smithee cut, which made a great deal more narrative sense (to a Dune virgin such as myself) than the theatrical version, but was unsatisfying in other ways. Later, reading [David] Lynch's various drafts of the script gave me what may be the purest form of the film in...2014, David Hughes, “Dune (1984)”, in The Complete Lynch, Ebury Press, →ISBN

Questions about Allen Smithee

What is Allen Smithee the alternative form of?
Allen Smithee is the alternative form of Alan Smithee.

Words near Allen Smithee in the dictionary

  1. Allen keys
  2. Allen Parish
  3. Allen Park
  4. Allen screw
  5. Allen screws
  6. Allen Smithee
  7. Allen wrench
  8. Allen wrenches
  9. Allen's hare
  10. Allen's hares
  11. Allen's hummingbird

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