(Syndicated, 1958)
[This syndicated drama about a crusading NY crime reporter
was a successor to the 1955 Green-Rouse B-picture which had
distributed by Warner Brothers; The film starred Broderick
Crawford who went on to fame in TV's "Highway Patrol";
The B-picture had been scored by low-budget expert Joseph
Mullendore with a main title by Alfred Newman, also used
for the TV series; this TV series was one of the last made
before its producer, Television Programs of America (TPA),
which had also produced the popular "Lassie" series, was
absorbed into Independent Television Corporation (ITC.)
Both the original movie and TV series were "suggested by"
a best-selling McCarthy-era book by the same title by
Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer in which bad guys were not
just greedy criminals, but part of an evil Communist
conspiracy to bring down America;
Some or all of the music from the film is thought to
have been re-cycled in the MUTEL Music Service library
of David Chudnow for use in other radio/TV series and
low-budget films]
Composer: Alfred Newman (ASCAP)
1978 Publisher: [listed without publisher in the 1978 ASCAP
Index of Performed Compositions]
2001 Publisher: [listed without publisher in the 2001 ASCAP
ACE Repertoire database]
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Composer: Joseph ("Joe") Mullendore (ASCAP/BMI)
1978 Publisher: M. Witmark & Sons (ASCAP)
2001 Publisher: M. Witmark & Sons (ASCAP)
c/o Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
of Los Angeles, CA
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