How leading thriller writer helped reveal plagiarism of Emmy prizewinner
It was a just few seconds of vivid footage: joyous scenes of American troops on tanks and Jeeps driving down a Champs Élysées lined with cheering Parisian crowds. But the rare colour sequence, shot by one of the Hollywood greats, film director George Stevens, sparked a chain of events that has ended in scandal and embarrassment for Stevens’s son and for leading US TV awards the Emmys.
Now for the first time, the former BBC producer Paul Woolwich and his collaborator, the renowned novelist , have revealed the full story behind an unprecedented decision to quietly strip a trio of top awards from two leading American film-makers after the realisation that film already broadcast in Britain in 1985.
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