The fine director Don Siegel (‘Invasion Of The Body Snatchers’, ‘Dirty Harry’, ‘Escape From Alcatraz’) was a dryly amusing, self-deprecating fellow who was interviewed on camera far less often than he should have been. Here’s a short interview with him from 1984 in which he says he has no style and is a whore who mostly works for money. None of this is remotely true and Siegel knows it. Perhaps he just liked flummoxing the very French interviewer. Speaking of flummoxing, why is this the location they chose for the interview? Siegel is standing in a parking lot adjacent to a Mobile Gas Station. Across the street is a seedy looking liquor store. Was this the best they could do? Did the crew accost Siegel unexpectedly as he filling up his car? And where are we exactly? The sign on the tacky store behind him reads ‘Baywood Market’. There’s a Baywood near San Luis Obispo off Highway One, a beachy kind of town. Perhaps this was Siegel’s retirement digs? He made his last movie, the unfortunate ‘Jinxed’ (starring an apparently big-pain-in-Siegel’s-ass Bette Midler) two years earlier. I like to think that Siegel had a perfectly pleasant ocean view house but, when he heard the interviewers were on the way over from Europe, purposely changed the location to the least appetizing nearby corner. Actually the spot looks like something out of a Siegel movie–beat-up, run-down, a place for fugitives to hide. ‘Charley Varrick’ anyone?