| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor + The Motor | 0:50:22 - Butch runs downstairs | anxious | combination of themes | criminal | double-cross | down | downstairs | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | motor | robbery | store | tense | thief | walking |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Butch goes downstairs | 0:50:22 - Butch runs downstairs | anxious | combination of themes | criminal | double-cross | down | downstairs | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | robbery | store | 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 |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Breaking in | 1:18:11 - Rocky enters the building | conflict | down | gangster | jumping | landing | leading man | mickey-mousing | room | sneaking | sneaky |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Going down stairs | 1:19:05 - Rocky runs down the stairs | agitated | conflict | down | dramatic | gangster | leading man | mickey-mousing | running | stairs | stairwell |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | The Chase | 0:56:36 - Marlowe chases the killer down the stairs | down | downstairs | gunshot | mickey-mousing | running | stairs | stinger |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Jumping over bush | 1:42:14 - Man jumps over bush | down | jumping | mickey-mousing | up |
| Crime School (1938) | Kids running down | 0:56:17 - Kids run down stairs | action scene | down | dramatic | mickey-mousing | reformatory | running | stairs | teenager |
Crime School (1938) | The Escape | 1:12:03 - Boys escape | down | escape | escaping | gang | jumping | mickey-mousing | mysterious | reformatory | sneaking | teenager |
| Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Jumps down stairs | 0:24:49 - Man jumps down the stairs to chase Clementi | down | flashback | jumping | mickey-mousing | stairs |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Arriving | 0:26:52 - Joe and Mabel settle into their new situation | arriving | calm | city | dramatic | hero | heroine | settling down | traveling | traveling | truck |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Running Up and Down) | 0:30:12 - Man runs up and down the courthouse steps | city | courthouse | down | frantic | hero | heroine | love scene | mickey-mousing | running | stairs | up |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Fleeing | 0:34:56 - Joe and Mabel flee | alley | city | danger | down | escape | fearful | fleeing | hero | heroine | mickey-mousing | running | suspenseful |
| The FBI Story (1959) | Running downhill | 1:57:13 - Men run downhill | down | downhill | escaping | flashback | mickey-mousing | running |
The FBI Story (1959) | Mario Climbs (Descending) | 1:58:44 - Mario climbs downhill | down | downhill | flashback |
The FBI Story (1959) | Mario climbs downhill | 1:59:50 - Mario climbs downhill | climbing | down | downhill | flashback | mickey-mousing |
| I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Down the stairs | 0:57:47 - Eve sneaks down the stairs | down | downstairs | mickey-mousing | sneaking |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Jumps off stairs | 1:03:26 - Matt jumps off of the staircase | down | jumping | mickey-mousing | up |
| The Informer (1935) | Tearing down poster | 0:02:47 - Gypo tears the reward poster off of the wall | down | establish character | leading man | linear chromaticism | mickey-mousing | poster | removing | street | tearing | upset |
The Informer (1935) | Throwing man down | 0:05:31 - Gypo picks the man up and throws him in the street | angry | down | establish character | falling | leading man | mickey-mousing | street | throwing | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Informer (1935) | Dan and Mary (Descending) | 1:05:08 - Mary enters, looking for Dan | chromatic sequence | courtroom scene | down | headquarters | hero | love interest | love theme | mickey-mousing | romantic | stairs | street | suspect | walking |
The Informer (1935) | Falling down the stairs | 1:06:19 - Gypo falls down the stairs | 9th chord | antagonist | chromatic scale | courtroom scene | down | dramatic | falling | headquarters | leading man | mickey-mousing | rebel | room | stairs | suspect |
The Informer (1935) | The Escape (The Fight) | 1:28:25 - Rebels shoot through the door | antagonist | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | climax | down | dramatic | escaping | falling | fighting | leading man | linear chromaticism | mickey-mousing | rebel | room | running | tense | traitor | whole-tone |
| Key Largo (1948) | McCloud Climbs Down | 1:35:31 - McCloud climbs down from the top of the boat | climbing | down | hero |
| Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Rock falls | 0:46:09 - A rock falls on the path | danger | down | falling | mickey-mousing | rock |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:08:53 - Wally looks for Mildred | action scene | ascending | down | dramatic | falling | friend | hurrying | knocking | mickey-mousing | room | searching | setup | suspenseful | underscoring | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Breaks glass | 1:05:35 - Bert slaps the glass out of Monte's hand | advance plot | breaking | down | ex-husband | falling | glass | heroine | leading lady | love interest | mickey-mousing | restaurant | tense | throwing | violence |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Closes blinds | 1:15:59 - Mildred closes the blinds | blinds | breakup | closing | conflict | down | heroine | leading lady | mickey-mousing | room | somber | window |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Boy runs downstairs | 0:03:07 - Gerald runs down the stairs | antagonist | boy | child | down | downstairs | establish character | gentle | home | mickey-mousing | mother | playful | running |
| White Heat (1949) | Plotting (Meno) | 1:04:34 - Inmate tries to give Cody food | down | food | mickey-mousing | prison |
White Heat (1949) | Danger (Dramatic) | 1:05:23 - Cody makes his escape with a gun and forces the doctor to make a phone call | down | dramatic | mickey-mousing | prison | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Plotting (Sneaky) | 1:14:09 - Verna sneaks down the stairs | down | downstairs | mickey-mousing |
White Heat (1949) | Jumps out window | 1:14:31 - Verna jumps out of the window | down | jumping | mickey-mousing | window |
White Heat (1949) | Falls down stairs | 1:48:21 - Gangster is shot and falls down the stairs | down | falling | gun | gunshot | mickey-mousing | stairs |
White Heat (1949) | Slides down pole | 1:48:43 - Cody slides down a pole | down | pole | sliding |
| Crime School (1938) | Jumping down | 1:12:03 - Boys jump out of the window | down | escape | escaping | gang | jumping | mickey-mousing | mysterious | reformatory | sneaking | teenager |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Rocks struggles and falls | 1:09:52 - Rocks tries to get up, then collapses | death | doctor | down | drugs | dying | falling | gangster | leading lady | leading man | murder | murderer | murder scene | office | poison | rising | struggling | tense | up |
| Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Boy running | 0:36:50 - Georgie runs down the stairs | advance plot | child | conductor score | down | hurried | mickey-mousing | running | street |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Police running | 1:35:32 - The policemen run | action scene | agitated | dock | down | dramatic | mickey-mousing | police | running | tense |
