- When I refused to take directing credit for the film Death of a Gunfighter (1969), as did Robert Totten, the Directors' Guild made up a pseudonym for Totten and myself, 'Allen Smithee.' As the picture was well received, I told my young friends who wanted to be directors to change their name to Smithee and take credit for direction of the picture. I don't know if anyone did this. I still think under certain circumstances, they might have cracked the 'magic barrier' and become directors. - Don Siegel, "A Siegel Film," London: Faber and Faber, 1993 (320, 321).
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