| The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Ear Music) | 1:36:04 - Marlowe talks to two thugs | conflict | criminal | danger | investigating | leading man | lying | murderer | mysterious | private eye | shop | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Gets Hit) | 1:36:20 - The thug punches Marlowe | conflict | criminal | danger | dramatic | leading man | mickey-mousing | murderer | private eye | punching | shop |
| Crime School (1938) | Gangster Blues (Mechanical) | 0:54:46 - Boys get to work | 13th chord | action scene | added-note chord | altered dominant | boiler room | coal | danger | fire | fire | frantic | gang | gauge | heat | hurrying | mechanical | reformatory | sequence | shoveling | smoke | teenager | temperature | temperature | working |
Crime School (1938) | Temperature rising | 0:54:53 - Close up of rising temperature gauge | action scene | boiler room | danger | frantic | gang | gauge | heat | mechanical | mickey-mousing | reformatory | rising | teenager | temperature | tense | tone cluster | watching |
Crime School (1938) | Temperature stable | 0:55:07 - Close up of stable temperature gauge | action scene | boiler room | danger | frantic | gang | gauge | heat | mechanical | mickey-mousing | reformatory | teenager | temperature | tense | tone cluster | watching |
Crime School (1938) | Temperature oscillating | 0:55:28 - Close up of oscillating temperature gauge | action scene | boiler room | danger | frantic | gang | gauge | heat | mechanical | mickey-mousing | reformatory | teenager | temperature | tense | tone cluster | watching |
Crime School (1938) | Boiler Overheating | 0:55:31 - Danger as the boiler gets really hot | action scene | arguing | boiler room | danger | frantic | gang | gauge | heat | hurrying | linear chromaticism | mechanical | pc set | reformatory | shoveling | teenager | temperature | tense | tone cluster | worker | working |
Crime School (1938) | Temperature rising 2 | 0:57:12 - The temperature gauge rises | action scene | altered dominant | boiler room | chromatic parallelism | danger | dramatic | gauge | heat | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | rising | teenager | temperature | tense |
| Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Clementi A | 1:50:59 - Mr. O'Hara enters Clementi's office | danger | flashback | suspense |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Clementi C | 1:51:13 - Mr. O'Hara pulls a gun on Clementi | danger | flashback | gun | suspense |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Fleeing | 0:34:56 - Joe and Mabel flee | alley | chromatic scale | danger | down | escape | fearful | fleeing | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | mickey-mousing | police | runaway | running | street | suspenseful |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Agitato Risoluto | 0:35:11 - Joe and Mabel hide under the stairs | agitated | alley | chromatic parallelism | concerned | danger | escape | hiding | leading lady | leading man | pedal tone | runaway | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Stinger | 0:51:01 - They see approaching headlights | 42 chord | danger | friend | jail break | leading lady | leading man | ominous | shopkeeper | siren | stinger | street |
| I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | FBI 2 | 0:02:20 - Report on communist leader is delivered | danger | FBI | office | tense |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | FBI 2 (Pittsburgh) | 0:02:42 - Report on communist leader is delivered | danger | FBI | office | tense |
| In This Our Life (1942) | Danger | 0:39:54 - A forest ranger | conversing | danger | fire | forest ranger | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | outdoors | tense |
| Key Largo (1948) | Rocco (Conflict) | 0:47:39 - Gaye looks terrified | boss | conflict | danger | father | fear | gangster | gun | horror | hostage | hotel | leading lady | leading man | look of horror | moll | staring | stinger | threatening | violence |
Key Largo (1948) | Rocco (Agitato) | 1:08:53 - Gangsters see that their boat is missing | advance plot | angry | announcing | boss | danger | discovering | gangster | hotel | stinger | tense | violent |
| Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Rock falls | 0:46:09 - A rock falls on the path | danger | down | falling | mickey-mousing | rock |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Trev (Heroic) | 0:46:33 - Trev climbs to help Shelly | climbing | danger | hero | rescue | romance |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Trev + Shelly | 0:47:16 - Trev helps Shelly climb to safety | cliff | combination of themes | danger | hero | heroine | resue | romance |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly (Tense) | 0:47:28 - Trev helps Shelly climb to safety | cliff | danger | hero | heroine |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:02:38 - Harvey drives Shelly to his guest cottage and alludes to doing her harm | danger | driving | tense | underscoring |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Pulls doorknob | 1:16:03 - The doorknob comes off in Shelly's hand | danger | falling off | mickey-mousing |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Menace (Brooding) | 1:18:00 - Shelly begins to remember things people have said about Trev | concerned | danger | heroine | worry |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Mournful | 1:18:16 - Shelly worries for her life | concerned | danger | heroine | worry |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Menace (Sinister) | 1:18:21 - It looks like Trev is going to attack Shelly | concerned | danger | heroine | worry |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Mournful (Scared) | 1:18:41 - Spider crawls across the bed while Trev tries to kill it; Trev tries to calm Shelly | concerned | danger | heroine | worry |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly (Afraid) | 1:18:52 - Shelly says she is afraid of Trev | concerned | danger | heroine | worry |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Fear | 1:19:02 - Shelly flees from Trev in fear | concerned | danger | heroine | stinger | worry |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly (Fleeing) | 1:19:17 - Shelly flees from Trev as he tries to open the door | concerned | danger | heroine | worry |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly (Escaping) | 1:19:32 - Shelly runs to the car and drives away | concerned | danger | driving | heroine | running | worry |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly (Leaving) | 1:19:41 - Trev sees Shelly drive away | concerned | danger | suspense |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Menace (String) | 1:21:41 - String and Liza talk | concerned | danger | suspense | thematic transferrence |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Chris (Dark) | 0:07:46 - Chris walks from her car to her front door | advance plot | antagonist | calm | danger | house | leading lady | ominous | shadow | tritone | tritone | walking |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Danger | 0:08:19 - Man appears in the shadows and attacks Chris | advance plot | antagonist | danger | fear | house | leading lady | monophonic | shadow | sinister | walking |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Attack) | 0:08:40 - Man takes Chris inside her house and attacks her | advance plot | antagonist | attacking | criminal | danger | fighting | house | leading lady | ostinato | pc set | shadow | sinister | victim |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Chris screams | 0:08:53 - Chris screams | advance plot | antagonist | criminal | danger | house | leading lady | mickey-mousing | pc set | screaming | shadow | sinister | victim |
| White Heat (1949) | Danger (Agitato) | 1:13:20 - Verna hears someone moving in the house | bedroom | danger | tense |
