| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Spiraling down | 0:47:38 - Doctor goes down the stairs | criminal | descending | 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 | 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 | climbing | conflict | descending | down | dramatic | escaping | gangster | hurrying | ladder | leading man | mickey-mousing | street |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | room | walking |
