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Charles Drazin
Nov 24, 2024
The Third Man: The Bootleg Story of the Film
This is the 10th example of how John Walsh’s The Third Man: The Official Story of the Film steals from my book In Search of the Third...
Charles Drazin
Nov 17, 2024
The Third Man: Summing Up the Evidence
Below I’m posting a ninth example of how John Walsh’s book The Third Man: The Official Story of the Film steals from my book In Search...
Charles Drazin
Nov 10, 2024
The Third Man: Yet More Theft Part 5
This is the eighth example I’ve posted of John Walsh’s copyright infringement of my work. Page 104 of his book The Third Man: The...
Charles Drazin
Nov 2, 2024
The Third Man: Yet More Theft Part 4
The saga continues. This is now the seventh example of John Walsh ’s copyright theft that I have posted to date. I dislike having to give...
Charles Drazin
Oct 28, 2024
The Third Man: Yet More Theft Part 3
To anyone who has followed the saga of how John Walsh has ripped off my book In Search of the Third Man , the routine will be very...
Charles Drazin
Oct 14, 2024
The Third Man: Yet More Theft Part 2
This blog entry is now the fifth example of John Walsh’s heavy plagiarism of my book In Search of the Third Man that I have posted...
Charles Drazin
Oct 14, 2024
The Third Man: Yet More Theft
Last week the Society of Authors gave me some advice concerning the copyright infringement of my book In Search of the Third Man . They...
Charles Drazin
Oct 1, 2024
The Third Man: Anatomy of a Theft
Among several pages of heavily plagiarized text to be found in The Third Man: The Official Story of the Film is the above sample, which...
Charles Drazin
Sep 23, 2024
The Third Man: Copyright Dispute
What follows is an effort to establish with as much precision as I can the extent to which Titan Books’ publication of The Third Man: The...
Charles Drazin
Sep 20, 2024
The Third Man: Stealing the Limelight
In 1999 I wrote a book on The Third Man to celebrate the film’s 50th anniversary. I relied on thorough original research and interviewed...
Charles Drazin
Sep 8, 2024
The Third Man Music: “It’s not what we got in Vienna...”
September 1949. A small, box-like, stringed instrument had taken London by storm. A headline in Time magazine called the craze that...
Charles Drazin
Sep 4, 2024
The Third Man: Carol Reed
In returning to The Third Man on the occasion of its 75th anniverary, it is difficult to resist the pull of Orson Welles – the...
Charles Drazin
Sep 2, 2024
The Third Man: The Other Harry Lime
Guy Hamilton, who was Assistant Director on The Third Man , spent quite possibly as much time playing Harry Lime as Orson Welles did....
Charles Drazin
Sep 1, 2024
The Third Man: Seventy-Five Years Old Today
With a film as prone to inaccurate hearsay as The Third Man , I find myself these days increasingly looking for the incontrovertible...
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