Bert Bailey wrote:

>For its simple but ominous DUM-DE-DUM-DUM theme, its producers quietly
>paid Miklos Rozsa a hefty wad of cash, by his account, as they didn't
>want to contest that it had been borrowed from his score for 'The Killers.'

According to Michael Hayde's indispensable "My Name's Friday", Rozsa's
publishers went to court -- and got a jury verdict -- when Ray Anthony's
version of Walter Schumann's "Dragnet March" became a big hit in '53,
alleging conscious plagarism, since  Schumann was working at Universal
(on Abbott & Costello pics) when "The Killers" was produced.  The new,
mostly awful, Dragnet on ABC credits both Rozsa & Schumann for the theme
(and nowhere credits Jack Webb for anything!).

-- Art Scott
Livermore, Cal.