| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Underscoring (Somber) | 1:21:26 - The Duke descends the stairs | child | conflict | conversing | crying gesture | descending | governess | leading lady | room | somber | tense |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Appassionato 2) | 1:46:00 - Henriette descends the staircase | anxious | descending | excited | hurrying | leading lady | not mickey-moused | room | stairs | transition | walking |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Spiraling down | 0:47:38 - Doctor goes down the stairs | 9th chord | criminal | descending | diminished 7th chord | doctor | gangster | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | robbery | spiraling | store | tense | thief | walking |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Rocks goes downstairs | 0:50:05 - Rocks goes down the stairs | antagonist | anxious | criminal | descending | diminished 7th chord | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | murderer | robbery | stairs | store | temperature | tense | thief | walking |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Going down a ladder | 1:17:32 - Rocky goes down an escape ladder | agitated | chromatic scale | climbing | conflict | descending | down | dramatic | escaping | gangster | hurrying | ladder | leading man | mickey-mousing | street |
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:56:27 - Einstein looks around in the dark | advance plot | brother | crazy person | dark | darkness | descending | doctor | leading man | match | murderer | plotting | room | sneaking | underscoring |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Walking | 0:01:26 - Carmen walks down the stairs | arriving | daughter | descending | establish character | femme fatale | leading man | mysterious | private eye | room | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Running down | 0:21:13 - Feet running down the stairs | action scene | antagonist | descending | dramatic | hurrying | mickey-mousing | running | street | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Down the Stairs + The Chase + Marlowe (Action) | 0:56:39 - Marlowe chases the killer down the stairs | assassin | chase scene | chasing | descending | dramatic | gun | gunshot | heroic | leading man | murderer | private eye | room | running | stairs | tense |
| City for Conquest (1940) | Peggy runs | 0:47:31 - Peggy runs down the stairs | boxer | dancer | descending | leading lady | leading man | love scene | mickey-mousing | running | source and scoring overlap | street | tense |
| Crime School (1938) | Going down | 0:57:05 - Mark descends into the boiler room | action scene | descending | dramatic | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | stairs | teenager | tense |
| The FBI Story (1959) | Mario (Death) | 2:00:33 - Mario's body falls into the river | death | descending tetrachord | flashback | hero |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Lane (Descending the Staircase) | 1:21:31 - Lane descends the stairs | advance plot | delicate | descending | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | mysterious | parallelism | room | walking |
| Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Sneaking and following | 0:58:30 - Bessie sneaks away | chase scene | conductor score | descending | floozy | following | hiding | investigator | leading man | mysterious | sneaking | street | tense |
| Key Largo (1948) | Climbing down | 1:35:31 - McCloud climbs down | boat | climbing | conflict | descending | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | tense |
| Kid Galahad (1937) | Doublecross (Entanglements) | 1:17:24 - Nick falls to the ground | advance plot | dark | descending tetrachord | farm | fighting | leading man | manager | mother | not by Steiner | sister | somber | tragic | transcribed by ear |
