Art Scott wrote:

>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!).

And then there is the Third Symphony by Homer Keller...as I recall the
first theme in the exposition of the first movement is about 3/4th of the
Dragnet theme.

Karl