| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Explosion | 0:07:16 - Building explodes after car drives by | bomb | chromatic scale | dissonant bass | dramatic | driving | establish character | explosion | gangster | mickey-mousing | montage | polychord | street | throwing |
| Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Comical) | 0:09:17 - Eddie's dream ends abruptly | comical | double exposure | dream sequence | explosion | laughing | leading man | montage | student | transcribed by ear |
| Crime School (1938) | Gangster Blues (Explosion) | 0:56:04 - The boiler explodes | 13th chord | action scene | added-note chord | boiler room | collapsing | escaping | exploding | explosion | foreign key modulation | frantic | gang | mechanical | reformatory | running | sequence | teenager | tense | worker | yelling |
Crime School (1938) | Explosion | 0:57:21 - Mark pulls Squirt out of the boiler room | action scene | ascending | boiler room | destruction | dissonant bass | dramatic | exploding | explosion | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | rising | stairs | teenager | tense | tone cluster |
| Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Car Crash | 0:05:40 - Two cars crash | car | car crash | chromatic scale | conflict | crashing | explosion | frantic | hero | leading man | metric dissonance | minor second | reporter | street | tone cluster |
| The FBI Story (1959) | Disaster | 0:03:41 - Plane explodes and falls from the sky; man rushes inside his home to call authorities | disaster | explosion | mickey-mousing | plane |
The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:41:28 - Men prepare to blow up an Indian house | explosion | flashback | tense | underscoring |
| White Heat (1949) | Cody's End | 1:52:26 - Cody shoots a gas valve and flames come rushing out | explosion | fire | gunshot |
White Heat (1949) | Cody (Ending) | 1:53:02 - Cody dies in the fire behind The End card | death | explosion | fire | gangster |
