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 Official Story of the Film plagiarizes my book In Search of The Third Man . I have already given one detailed example in a recent blog post: https://www.charlesdrazin.com/post/the-third-man-stealing-the-limelight Here is a second example, and I shall provide other examples if it turns out to be necessary. Below is the opening page of a chap

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 several people who had been involved in the making of the film. I was pleased when it received several warm reviews, including this praise from the movie magazine Empire :  ‘Writing with the lean, incisive tone of a Greene novel, Drazin has really put the work in... Delivers the definitive history and evaluation of a true great.” Then last y

A familiar theme in the various stories about Michael Powell is how unfairly forgotten he was before he was “rediscovered” in the 1970s. ...