Dust Be My Destiny (1939)

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Title:	Dust Be My Destiny [IMDb]	Film Structure Tag Cloud
Release date:	September 16, 1939
Studio:	Warner Brothers
Runtime:	88 minutes
IMDB genres:	crime, drama, film-noir
BYU holdings:	https://search.lib.byu.edu/byu/record/lee.6777069

Synopsis [hide]

Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.

Plot keywords (from IMDb): alcoholism, bank robbery, based on novel, cynicism, editor, fugitive, news photographer, newspaper, reporter, trial, orchestral music score

Cast and Crew

Actor	Role
John Garfield	Joe Bell
Priscilla Lane	Mabel Alden
Alan Hale	Mike Leonard
Frank McHugh	Caruthers
Billy Halop	Hank Glenn
Bobby Jordan	Jimmy Glenn
Charley Grapewin	Pop
Henry Armetta	Nick
Stanley Ridges	Charlie Garrett
John Litel	Prosecutor
Moroni Olsen	Slim Jones
Lewis Seiler: director
Hal B. Wallis: producer Max Steiner: composer Leo F. Forbstein: musical director Hugo Friedhofer: orchestrator

Film Statistics

Stats
Film duration:	1:27:24
Music duration:	00:55:27
Pages in score:	199
Total themes:	21
Themes with variants:	5
Total variants:	79
Total gestures:	18
Total underscoring sections:	17
Total underscoring duration:	00:06:10
Total instances:	147

Themes

Name	Uses	Variants
Dust Be My Destiny	82	71
Here Comes the Bride	5	3
My Wild Irish Rose	4	3
Charlie	2	1
Marching	2	0
Whistling	2	1
Agitato Risoluto	1	0
Arriving	1	0
Buzzing	1	0
Cantor	1	0
Escape Plan	1	0
Fairy Music	1	0
Headlines	1	0
Mysterioso	1	0
Patrol	1	0
Radio Fanfare	1	0
Signature	1	0
The Daily Journal	1	0
The Poster	1	0
Transition	1	0

Other films borrowed from:

Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)

Source Music

Name	Uses
In a Moment of Weakness	1

Gestures

Name
Alarm
Car crash
Comedy fall
Cow
Dying
Fleeing
Gangsters walk
Hiccough
Joe fights cow
Joe runs and falls
Laughing
Running
Running away
Speeding car
Speeding train
Stinger
Train whistle
Turning around

Underscoring

Name
Dark
Dramatic
Humorous
Romantic
Tense