| Description |
| On-screen: |
Sign for Milbanke Motels |
| Description: |
Rapid-moving scalar gestures in the strings represent a speeding car; Steiner borrowed this theme from Crime School (1938), where it was used for a speeding police wagon; the music pauses when the car changes directions |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 10] con moto / f / pizz / arco; [m. 11] pizz / arco; [m. 18] no flutter; [m. 19] sfz; [m. 21] f / arco; [m. 22] rit / f |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 10] Dissolve; [m. 22] Car stops |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 10] violins / 2 flts / b'ssns / b clt / Novachord / timp / 4 horns flutter / 2 oboes / 2 clts / violas / 3 trbs (felts) / piano; [m. 16] add W.W. / trpts + horns muted; [m. 19] add violas / 3 trbs soli / trpt a1 / horns a4; [m. 21] horns only; [m. 22] W.W. |
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| Tags |
arriving | car | dark | driving | gangster | leading man | murderer | self-borrowing | street | tense | transition
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