 Was the focus of a short and bitter flurry of allegations between  Warner Brothers and MGM of plagiarism over similarities between this  film and WBs _Rhapsody Rabbit (1946)_ (qv). The controversy began  when raw film from "Rhapsody Rabbit" was sent to be processed at a  central film lab which serviced both Warners and MGM. By accident,  the finished negatives were sent to MGM, who eventually returned  them, but Friz Freleng (qv) (the director on "Rhapsody Rabbit")  suspected that Hanna and Barbera or others at MGM may have viewed  the film before sending it on to Warner Bros. Hanna and Barbera  counter