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suspect rising book shop blackmailer private eye pain femme fatale car tense romantic room phone call sneaking reused recording conversing hiding mysterious shop pleasant love interest flirting leading man thinking somber leading lady street gun dramatic singing hurried tritone dark walking bold mickey-mousing planning criminal name on screen hurrying tying up not in score falling driving snapping smoke clue hanging up daughter recovering searching light switch chasing arriving underscoring waiting investigating fear heroic rain shooting murderer researching captive violence danger poison secret code disguising screaming dialing running calling gunshot assassin descending WB shield cut from film punching death threat inserted scene deleted scene antagonist outside stinger dazed turning on impressionism cafe music reveals thoughts upbeat uneasy light lying seductive murder source music spinning informer suspenseful fanfare closing gentle starring list stumbling flowing mansion accusing leaving butler hostage ominous escaping departing disguise glass stairs hallway decisive phone club burning evidence on-screen music breaking in threatening noble freeing slapping foreboding telephone melancholy musical clue octatonic blackmail faucet tripping arguing kissing lifting victim cast list driver love playful writing eavesdropping jumping violent on-screen text bluesy key calm turning taxi transition gambling shaking resolved sinister comical silhouette doorbell biting slamming helping corpse combination of themes mourning plotting neutral entering dying following smoking whole-tone rope angry gambler ascending weary library breaking musician dropping water determined tender coin secretary playing singer skidding hat turning off heavy The End triumphant pursuing