The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Thinking) | 1:20:49 - Marlowe sits in a diner | 11th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | café | chromatic parallelism | fragmentation | leading man | mysterious | private eye | tense | thinking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Coin in phone | 1:21:04 - Marlowe puts a coin in the phone | advance plot | café | coin | diminished 7th chord | dropping | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | phone call | private eye | telephone |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Phone dialing | 1:21:07 - Marlowe dials a phone number | 11th chord | advance plot | café | dialing | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | ostinato | phone call | private eye | telephone | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:21:19 - Marlowe speaks on the phone | advance plot | café | chromatic scale | conversing | leading man | mysterious | pc set | phone call | private eye | tense | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Mysterious Organ) | 1:21:42 - Marlowe speaks to waitress | advance plot | café | conversing | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mysterious | pc set | phone call | private eye | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:21:57 - Marlowe speaks with Vivian on the phone | advance plot | café | chromatic parallelism | conversing | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | love interest | mysterious | phone call | private eye | stinger | tense | underscoring |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Cheatin' on Me | 0:19:12 - Lane works at the café | AABA structure | advance plot | café | leading lady | leading man | leaving | police | source music | upbeat | waitress | working |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Inverted) | 0:33:27 - Field arrives at the café | arriving | breakup | café | inversion | leading man | ominous | self-borrowing | sheriff | telephone | worker |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus 2 | 0:33:41 - Field sits down | breakup | café | conversing | dark | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | self-borrowing | waitress |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Dark) | 0:33:56 - Field talks to Lane | breaking up | breakup | café | dark | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | self-borrowing | waitress |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus 2 (Triste) | 0:34:10 - Field tells Lane he is getting married | breaking up | breakup | café | chromatic sequence | dark | leading lady | leading man | major 7th chord | mysterious | self-borrowing | somber | waitress |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:34:30 - Lane responds to Field | breaking up | breakup | café | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | tense | underscoring | waitress |
Flamingo Road (1949) | If I Could Be With You (Triste) | 0:34:51 - Lane goes to the kitchen | breakup | café | dark | diminished 7th chord | foreign key modulation | leading lady | pondering | somber | waitress | working |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lane (Triste) | 0:35:13 - Lane comes back and Field is gone | breakup | café | dark | employer | firing | leading lady | somber | waitress |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Ostinato) | NIF - not in film | advance plot | arguing | café | cut from film | cut from film | employer | leading lady | lying | ostinato | self-borrowing | waitress |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus 2 (Pete Lies) | 0:40:11 - Field asks why Lane was fired | advance plot | café | conversing | employer | leading man | mysterious | politician | self-borrowing |
Flamingo Road (1949) | If I Could Be With You (Somber) | 0:40:31 - Field talks to Lane's co-worker | 9th chord | 11th chord | advance plot | café | common-tone diminished 7th | conversing | coworker | deceptive resolution | diminished 7th chord | leading man | linear chromaticism | politician | reverse picardy | sigh gesture | somber |
Murder on the Blackboard (1934) | The Clue | 1:08:29 - Hildegarde whistles | advance plot | café | detective | leading lady | leading man | neutral | on-screen music | sleuth | source music | whistling |