All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Heaven Theme | 1:28:16 - Henriette tells the Duke about herself | added-note chord | common-chord modulation | duke | falling in love scene | gentle | governess | leading lady | leading man | room | storytelling |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Triste | 1:28:51 - Henriette talks about a mystery | duke | falling in love scene | governess | leading lady | leading man | pedal tone | room | sigh gesture | somber | storytelling |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Very Romantic) | 1:29:07 - Henriette talks with the Duke | 9th chord | altered dominant | augmented triad | conversing | duke | falling in love scene | gentle | governess | leading lady | leading man | pedal tone | romantic | room | sweet |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Rocks struggles and falls | 1:09:52 - Rocks tries to get up, then collapses | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | death | doctor | down | drugs | dying | falling | gangster | leading lady | leading man | murder | murderer | murder scene | office | oscillation | poison | rising | split-third chord | struggling | tense | up |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:40:50 - Gangsters shoot their own man in phone booth | chromatic sequence | conflict | death | diminished 7th chord | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | mickey-mousing | murderer | polychord | shooting | shop | sneaking | tense | voice-exchange |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:16:29 - Rocky shoots Mac and Frazier | agitated | attacking | casino | chaos | chasing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | climbing | conflict | crowd | death | dissonant bass | dramatic | dying | escaping | falling | fighting | gangster | gun | gunshot | half-diminished 7th chord | hurrying | jumping | landing | lawyer | leading man | mickey-mousing | pedal tone | police | rooftop | room | running | sequence | shooting | sneaking | sneaky | street | tone cluster | underscoring |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Mac gets shot | 1:16:35 - Mac gets shot and dies | agitated | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | death | dramatic | dying | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | lawyer | leading man | mickey-mousing | room | shooting |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Frazier gets shot | 1:16:56 - Frazier gets shot and dies | agitated | casino | chromatic scale | conflict | death | dramatic | dying | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | lawyer | leading man | mickey-mousing | shooting |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Machine Gun | 1:20:24 - Policeman shoots at Rocky with machine gun | agitated | building | chromatic parallelism | conflict | death | dramatic | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | hiding | leading man | police | polychord | shooting | street | underscoring |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Rocky runs | 1:25:13 - Rocky makes a run for it | agitated | chromatic scale | conflict | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | hostage | leading man | octatonic | priest | running | sequence | shooting | street | whole-tone chord |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Take Me Out to the Ball Game | 0:01:20 - Fans yelling at a ball game | augmented sixth chord | baseball | baseball player | bass drum | cheering | crowd | enharmonic modulation | establish place | evaded cadence | falling | familiar tune | field | fighting | musician | parallel double period | pep band | playing | popular song | punching | rushed | saxophone | simulated source music | source music | sporting event | trombone | umpire | upbeat | yelling |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Punching and falling | 0:01:38 - A fight starts on the field | baseball player | dramatic | falling | field | mickey-mousing | punching | sporting event | umpire |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Jonathan 2 (Dark) | 0:57:04 - Jonathan exits | advance plot | brother | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | conversing | crazy person | dark | darkness | dissonant bass | doctor | falling | leading man | murderer | mysterious | pc set | polychord | room | stinger |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Porcupine | 0:11:59 - A porcupine in a tree | cabin | climbing | comical | dying | establish character | falling | leading lady | porcupine | shooting | wife |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Falling down | 0:14:27 - Moose falls on a bed | advance plot | cabin | collapsing | dramatic | falling | friend | leading lady | mickey-mousing | pushing | wife |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Broadly) | 1:19:57 - Rosa rolls down a hill | action scene | canyon | dark | dramatic | falling | jumping | leading lady | leading man | murderer | runaway | tense |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Sawmill + Steam Whistle | 1:30:02 - The maid makes a phone call | agitated | climax | collapsing | combination of themes | cut from film | falling | leading lady | machinery effect | madness | mad scene | maid | murderer | street | stumbling | tense | walking | whistle effect |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Carmen falls | 0:02:20 - Carmen falls into Marlowe's arms | daughter | diminished 7th chord | establish character | falling | femme fatale | flirting | leading man | mickey-mousing | playful | private eye | room | whole-tone chord |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:52:02 - Marlowe pushes Agnes | blackmailer | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | criminal | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | falling | femme fatale | gun | leading lady | leading man | private eye | room | suspect | tense | tripping | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan | 1:00:50 - Vivian enters a restaurant | ABACA structure | arriving | club | conversing | falling in love scene | leading lady | leading man | love interest | pleasant | private eye | source music |
The Big Sleep (1946) | The Blue Room | 1:02:15 - Vivan pays Marlowe | AABA structure | club | conversing | falling in love scene | leading lady | leading man | love interest | pleasant | private eye | source music |
The Big Sleep (1946) | You Go to My Head | 1:04:25 - Vivian and Marlowe talk in a restaurant | club | conversing | falling in love scene | leading lady | leading man | love interest | pleasant | private eye | source music |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Jones falls | 1:29:50 - Jones falls and dies | chromatic parallelism | death | death scene | dying | falling | leading man | major 7th chord | mickey-mousing | murder | mysterious | pc set | poison | private eye | room | victim | violent |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Canino's Death | 1:43:22 - Canino is shot | action scene | chromatic parallelism | criminal | death | dramatic | dying | falling | gun | gunshot | hostage | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mirroring | outside | pc set | private eye | retrograde | stumbling | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Mars Dies | 1:51:43 - Mars falls dead to the ground | criminal | death | dying | falling | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mysterious | ominous | private eye | resolution | room | stinger | tense | underscoring |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Knock Out) | 0:38:33 - Montage of boxing scenes | boxing | boxing ring | common-chord modulation | double exposure | falling | march | mickey-mousing | mode mixture | montage | transcribed by ear | triumphant |
City for Conquest (1940) | Googi dies | 1:15:34 - Googi is shot | chromatic parallelism | criminal | dock | dying | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | half-diminished 7th chord | manager | mickey-mousing | murderer | murdering | murder scene | ominous | shooting | slumping | tense |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Death) | 1:15:39 - Googi dies | criminal | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | dock | dying | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | manager | murderer | murdering | murder scene | ominous | shooting | slumping | tense |
Crime School (1938) | The Warden | 0:23:15 - Warden stands up to face the boys | antagonist | arguing | augmented triad | authority | chromatic parallelism | establish character | falling | gang | lightning | ominous | police | reformatory | slapping | stinger | teenager | warden | whole-tone chord |
Crime School (1938) | The Warden (The Guards) | 0:29:34 - Warden's guards run to catch Frankie | 64 chord | anguished | barbed wire fence | battle call | capturing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | dragging | dramatic | escape | falling | pc set | police | reformatory | running | sequence | teenager | tense | warden |
Crime School (1938) | Pants falling | 0:34:10 - Squirt's pants fall down | comedy | comical | falling | mickey-mousing | pants | reformatory | teenager |
Crime School (1938) | Slips on paint | 0:51:01 - Guard chases boy then slips and falls on paint | accident | chromatic scale | comedy | comical | falling | mickey-mousing | police | reformatory | slipping | teenager | walking |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Fugitive (Fainting) | 0:26:32 - Johnnie stumbles and faints | 9th chord | dark | deceptive resolution | dissonant bass | establish character | fainting | falling | foreign key modulation | leading man | ranch | tired | tragic | walking |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Ladder falls | 0:30:16 - The ladder falls | chromatic scale | comical | conflict | diminished 7th chord | falling | ladder | mickey-mousing | ranch | teenager |
Deep Valley (1947) | Turns, Hits, and Falls | 0:22:28 - Barry hits the guard | boss | conflict | convict | dramatic | falling | father | guard | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | punching | stinger | street | turning | violence |
Deep Valley (1947) | Barry (Slowly) | 0:45:50 - Barry watches Libby | cabin | convict | dog | falling in love scene | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | uneasy | watching |
Deep Valley (1947) | Joe (Calm) | 0:46:14 - Joe comes in | cabin | calm | convict | dog | falling in love scene | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | watching |
Deep Valley (1947) | Love Theme (Full) | 0:46:30 - Barry and Libby by the lake | calm | conversing | convict | falling in love scene | forest | fugitive | laughing | leading lady | leading man | working |
Deep Valley (1947) | Love Theme (Memory) | 0:46:53 - Barry and Libby by the lake | conversing | convict | falling in love scene | forest | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | memory | uneasy |
Deep Valley (1947) | Breeze | 0:48:03 - Libby talks to Barry | conversing | convict | ethereal | falling in love scene | forest | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | listening | magical | wind | wind effect |
Deep Valley (1947) | Breeze + Love Theme | 0:48:14 - Barry talks to Libby | combination of themes | conversing | convict | ethereal | falling in love scene | forest | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | listening | magical | wind | wind effect |
Deep Valley (1947) | Barry (Drunk) | 0:50:00 - Barry talks to Libby | convict | drunk | falling in love scene | forest | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | story | storytelling | tense |
Deep Valley (1947) | Barry | 0:50:33 - Barry talks to Libby | agitated | convict | falling in love scene | forest | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | story | storytelling |
Deep Valley (1947) | Barry (Drunk) | 0:51:00 - Barry talks to Libby | convict | drunk | falling in love scene | forest | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | story | storytelling | tense |
Deep Valley (1947) | Barry (Dolce) | 0:51:17 - Barry talks to Libby | convict | falling in love scene | forest | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | story | storytelling | sweet |
Deep Valley (1947) | Kiss | 0:51:58 - Barry kisses Libby | convict | dog | embracing | exciting | falling in love scene | forest | fugitive | kissing | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | staring |
Deep Valley (1947) | Deep Valley | 0:52:10 - Barry kisses Libby again | convict | dog | embracing | falling in love scene | forest | fugitive | gentle | kissing | leading lady | leading man | love interest | romantic | staring |
Deep Valley (1947) | Molto Expressivo | 1:37:28 - Barry pushes Libby away | arguing | car | chasing | climax | convict | crying | dramatic | driving | falling | fleeing | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | love interest | running | street |
Deep Valley (1947) | Car Crash | 1:37:49 - Barry's car runs off the road | car | climax | convict | crashing | dramatic | driving | falling | fleeing | fugitive | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | street | swerving |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:38:41 - Barry is shot | climax | convict | dramatic | falling | forest | fugitive | injury | leading man | love interest | police | stinger | tense | underscoring |
Deep Valley (1947) | Barry is shot | 1:38:57 - Barry is shot | climax | convict | dramatic | falling | forest | fugitive | injury | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | police | shooting |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Comedy fall | 0:13:08 - Joe falls over while milking the cow | barn | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | comical | falling | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | mickey-mousing | prisoner |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dying | 0:26:09 - Charlie falls and dies | barn | death | death | dramatic | falling | mickey-mousing | villain | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Joe runs and falls | 0:46:50 - Joe runs and falls | chromatic scale | create suspense | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | dramatic | falling | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | police | runaway | running | stinger | street |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Calendar Pages | 0:59:53 - Pages falling from a calendar | calendar | chromatic parallelism | diminished 7th chord | falling | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | mysterious | prisoner | sequence |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lane (Sentimentale) | NIF - not in film | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | conversing | cut from film | cut from film | falling in love scene | leading lady | leading man | police |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lane (Molto Expressivo) | NIF - not in film | 11th chord | conversing | cut from film | cut from film | falling in love scene | leading lady | leading man | police |
Flamingo Road (1949) | If I Could Be With You (Dolce) | 0:17:22 - Lane and Field talk | conversing | falling in love scene | leading lady | leading man | love interest | pedal tone | police | porch | sentimental | source to score |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Goodnight | 0:17:45 - Lane and Field talk | blue note | conversing | falling in love scene | leading lady | leading man | love interest | peaceful | pedal tone | police | porch |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lane (Dolce) | 0:17:58 - Lane flirts with Field | falling in love scene | flirting | leading lady | leading man | love interest | pedal tone | playful | police | porch | sweet |
Flamingo Road (1949) | If I Could Be With You (Ethereal) | 0:18:06 - Lane watches Field drive away | common-tone diminished 7th | falling in love scene | leading lady | leading man | leaving | love interest | pedal tone | police | porch | sentimental | source to score |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus 2 (Sinks) | 1:31:50 - Titus collapses to the floor | climax | club | death | dying | falling | gun | gunshot | leading lady | self-borrowing | sequence | sheriff | sinking | tragic |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Hammy Is Shot | 0:53:37 - Hammy falls to the ground | action scene | conductor score | dramatic | dying | falling | gangster | investigator | leading man | mickey-mousing | street | tragic |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Amato falls | 1:36:20 - Amato falls in the water | action scene | boat | dock | dramatic | falling | fighting | gangster | inspector | leading man | mickey-mousing | punching | splashing | tense | water |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic [Steiner]) | 1:15:53 - Joe shoots at Steve | climax | criminal | double-cross | dramatic | dying | falling | gambler | gun | gunshot | henchman | husband | leading man | murder | murderer | parallelism | revenge | shooting | street | widow |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Throws lamp | 0:59:39 - Commie throws lamp at FBI man | agent | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | communist | dramatic | falling | lamp | mickey-mousing | murder scene | room | spy | throwing |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Commie is shot | 1:04:01 - Communist is shot and falls dead | chromatic scale | communist | death | dramatic | dying | falling | gun | gunshot | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | pc set | shooting | shootout | shootout | spy | stinger | teacher | tense | tone cluster | train tracks | undercover agent |
Illegal (1955) | Ellen Falls | 1:07:35 - Ray pushes Ellen down | falling | heroine | mickey-mousing |
In This Our Life (1942) | Car crash | 1:09:01 - Stanley hits two pedestrians | accident | car | car crash | crashing | crime scene | criminal | dramatic | driving | drunk | dying | falling | hit and run | leading lady | mickey-mousing | street | victim | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
In This Our Life (1942) | Car crash 2 | 1:34:17 - Stanley's car crashes | 9th chord | brash | car | car crash | chase scene | climax | crashing | criminal | dramatic | driving | dying | falling | fire | leading lady | mickey-mousing | police | street | tense |
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) | 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) | Nora | 0:17:32 - Nora and Frank walk to the boat | conversing | dock | falling in love scene | leading lady | leading man | romantic | triadic | wind |
Key Largo (1948) | Nora (Nervous) | 0:17:53 - Nora sees the gangsters | conversing | dock | falling in love scene | gangster | leading lady | leading man | nervous | wind |
Key Largo (1948) | Wind | 0:18:21 - Frank helps prepare for the storm | conversing | dock | falling in love scene | gangster | leading lady | leading man | storm | tense | wind |
Key Largo (1948) | Tosses rope | 0:18:32 - Frank tosses the rope to Nora | dock | falling in love scene | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | rope | tense | throwing |
Key Largo (1948) | Nora (Con Moto) | 0:18:40 - Nora smiles at Frank | dock | falling in love scene | leading lady | leading man | romantic | smiling | watching |
Key Largo (1948) | Tosses rope 2 | 0:18:47 - Frank tosses the rope to Nora | dock | falling in love scene | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | romantic | rope | throwing |
Key Largo (1948) | Rocco 3 (Agitato) | 0:29:15 - Toots trips Sawyer | conflict | falling | gangster | hostage | hotel | menacing | mickey-mousing | police | rolling | tripping |
Key Largo (1948) | Falling | 0:33:38 - Mr. Temple falls to the ground | angry | boss | conflict | dramatic | falling | father | gangster | hostage | hotel | landing | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | tense |
Key Largo (1948) | Falling and dying | 0:48:19 - Deputy Sawyer falls dead off-screen | boss | conflict | death | dramatic | dying | falling | father | gangster | gun | gunshot | hostage | hotel | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | moll | tense |
Key Largo (1948) | Tree falls | 1:06:28 - Stormy weather outside | beach | dramatic | falling | hurricane | mickey-mousing | storm | storm scene | tense | tree |
Key Largo (1948) | Rocco's Death | 1:35:17 - Rocco falls | boat | boss | conflict | death | dramatic | dying | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | leading man | mickey-mousing | shooting | stinger | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Collapse | 0:38:20 - Leslie collapses | anxious | collapsing | fainting | falling | fearful | half-diminished 7th chord | lawyer | leading lady | letter | mickey-mousing | pivotal scene | prison | suspension | tense |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Stumbling | 0:42:50 - Shelly slips on a rock and almost falls | actor | cliff | countryside | danger | dramatic | falling in love scene | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | slipping | stumbling | suspect |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Fear (Vertigo) | 0:42:57 - Shelly talks with Trev | actor | cliff | conversing | countryside | danger | falling in love scene | fear | heights | leading lady | leading man | love interest | suspect | tense | underscoring |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly (Expressivo) + Shelly 2 (Expressivo) | 0:43:13 - Shelly talks with Trev | actor | calm | cliff | combination of themes | conversing | countryside | falling in love scene | leading lady | leading man | love interest | romance | suspect | tense |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly 2 (Dolce) | 0:43:38 - Shelly talks with Trev | actor | cliff | conversing | countryside | falling in love scene | leading lady | leading man | love interest | romance | romantic | suspect |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly 3 (Appassionato) | 0:43:47 - Shelly talks with Trev | actor | cliff | conversing | countryside | falling in love scene | leading lady | leading man | love interest | romance | romantic | suspect |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly 2 (Dolcissimo) | 0:44:07 - Shelly looks at Trev | actor | cliff | conversing | countryside | falling in love scene | gentle | leading lady | leading man | love interest | romance | romantic | suspect |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:44:51 - Shelly talks with Trev | actor | cliff | conversing | countryside | falling in love scene | leading lady | leading man | love interest | suspect | suspenseful | tense | underscoring |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly and Trev (Taken Aback) | 0:45:08 - Shelly reacts to Trev's question | actor | arguing | cliff | countryside | falling in love scene | leading lady | leading man | love interest | reacting | somber | suspect |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly (Menacing) | 0:45:23 - Shelly talks with Trev | actor | arguing | cliff | countryside | falling in love scene | leading lady | leading man | love interest | menacing | reacting | suspect |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly 2 (Romantic) | 0:45:51 - Shelly talks with Trev | actor | cliff | conversing | countryside | departing | falling in love scene | gentle | leading lady | leading man | love interest | romantic | suspect | underscoring |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Stumbling 2 | 0:46:03 - Shelly starts back along path | actor | cliff | climbing | countryside | danger | dramatic | falling in love scene | hiking | leading lady | leading man | love interest | slipping | stumbling | suspect |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Rock falls | 0:46:09 - A rock falls on the path | actor | cliff | countryside | danger | dramatic | falling | falling in love scene | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | rock | suspect |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Fear | 0:46:12 - Shelly is scared and can't move | actor | cliff | clinging | countryside | dark | falling in love scene | fear | heights | leading lady | leading man | love interest | suspect | tense |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Trev (Triste 2) | 0:46:33 - Trev climbs to help Shelly | actor | cliff | climbing | countryside | danger | falling in love scene | helping | heroic | leading lady | leading man | love interest | rescue | rescuing | romantic | somber | suspect | tense |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Rescue | 0:47:42 - Trev rescues Shelly | actor | cliff | climbing | countryside | dramatic | falling in love scene | helping | leading lady | leading man | love interest | rescue | rescuing | suspect | tense | triumphant |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly and Trev (Appassionato) | 0:47:56 - Trev embraces Shelly | actor | cliff | countryside | falling in love scene | hugging | kissing | leading lady | leading man | love interest | romantic | suspect |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Monte is shot | 0:01:50 - Monte is shot | chromatic parallelism | collapsing | death | dying | falling | gun | gunshot | major 7th chord | mickey-mousing | murder | murder scene | room | staggering | tragic |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:08:53 - Wally looks for Mildred | 9th chord | action scene | ascending | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | down | dramatic | falling | friend | half-diminished 7th chord | hurrying | knocking | mickey-mousing | room | searching | setup | suspenseful | underscoring | walking | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Lamp falls | 0:10:03 - Wally knocks over a lamp | action scene | body | dramatic | falling | friend | lamp | mickey-mousing | reveal | room | whole-tone chord |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Glass falls | 0:10:49 - The glass door breaks | action scene | breaking | door | dramatic | falling | friend | glass | mickey-mousing | room | smashing | victim | whole-tone chord |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay falls | 0:25:12 - Kay falls to the ground | child | establish character | falling | football | mickey-mousing | playing | street | upbeat |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | First Kiss | 0:49:40 - Monte steals a kiss from Mildred | cheerful | common-tone diminished 7th | falling in love scene | friend | heroine | kissing | leading lady | restaurant | romance |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Walking | 0:49:48 - Driving to the beach house | 9th chord | beach house | cheerful | driving | falling in love scene | friend | heroine | leading lady | parallelism | room | traveling | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Opens closet | 0:49:57 - Mildred slides open a door | 9th chord | cheerful | falling in love scene | heroine | leading lady | love interest | mickey-mousing | opening | room | sliding |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Disrobes | 0:50:47 - Monte takes off Mildred's robe | beach house | cheerful | disrobing | dissonant bass | falling | falling in love scene | flirting | heroine | leading lady | love interest | mickey-mousing | robe |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Bathing Suit | 0:50:49 - Monte looks at Mildred in her bathing suit | 9th chord | attraction | beach house | cheerful | dissonant bass | falling in love scene | flirting | foreign key modulation | heroine | leading lady | love interest | mickey-mousing |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Frolicking) | 0:51:01 - Mildred runs to the beach | 9th chord | beach | cheerful | falling in love scene | flirting | foreign key modulation | frolicking | heroine | jaunty | leading lady | love interest | running | tritone |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Frolicking in the Surf | 0:51:05 - Monte and Mildred run to the water | 9th chord | 64 chord | beach | falling in love scene | foreign key modulation | frolicking | heroine | jaunty | leading lady | love interest | mickey-mousing | playful | running | splashing | swimming | water | waves |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Waves | 0:51:11 - Waves crash onto the beach | 64 chord | beach | calm | falling in love scene | heroine | leading lady | love interest | mickey-mousing | rolling | splashing | waves |
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) | Monte is shot 2 | 1:47:28 - Monte is shot | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | collapsing | death | dying | falling | gun | gunshot | major 7th chord | mickey-mousing | murder | murderer | murder scene | room | staggering | tragic |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:26:42 - Goff slaps Jonah | arguing | chef | conflict | criminal | dock | dramatic | extortion | falling | father | fisherman | friend | leading man | mickey-mousing | punching | slapping | stinger | underscoring | violence |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:06:59 - Goff hits George | boyfriend | conflict | criminal | dock | dramatic | falling | fighting | fisherman | friend | leading man | punching | violence |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Fainting | 1:40:41 - Leni faints | added-note chord | fainting | falling | hero | heroine | love scene | mickey-mousing | prison | sequence | tense |
White Heat (1949) | Steam | 0:04:54 - Man gets burned by steam from train | burning | bursting | countryside | dramatic | establish character | falling | gangster | leading man | murderer | pain | robbery | steam | steam effect | stinger | tense | train | train engineer | victim | writhing |
White Heat (1949) | Verna falls | 0:18:05 - Verna falls off the chair | agitated | chair | conflict | couch | falling | gangster | kicking | landing | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | moll | murderer | room | tense |
White Heat (1949) | Danger (Molto Agitato) | 0:23:25 - Evans points a gun at Cody | action scene | agent | agitated | arresting | dying | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | leading man | murderer | shooting | street | tense | wound |
White Heat (1949) | Prison Fight | 0:37:48 - Hank sees Bo Creel | action scene | falling | fighting | gangster | guard | leading man | mickey-mousing | murderer | prison | prisoner | punching | tense | undercover agent |
White Heat (1949) | Punching and falling | 0:38:03 - Hank punches inmate | action scene | dramatic | falling | gangster | guard | leading man | mickey-mousing | murderer | prison | prisoner | punching | tense | undercover agent |
White Heat (1949) | Trap | 0:44:53 - The crane moves over Cody's head | attempted | crane | crashing | dramatic | dropping | falling | gangster | leading man | machine | machine effect | mickey-mousing | moving | murder | murderer | murder scene | prison | prisoner | saving | stinger | tense | trap | undercover agent |
White Heat (1949) | Madness | 0:50:16 - Cody hears voices | agitated | blur | falling | gangster | hallucinating | hallucination | headache | headache effect | hearing voices | leading man | machine | mad scene | murderer | pain | prison | prisoner | self-borrowing | tense | unsettled |
White Heat (1949) | Headache | 0:50:31 - Heavy machinery | agitated | crawling | falling | gangster | headache | headache effect | leading man | machine | mad scene | murderer | pain | prison | prisoner | self-borrowing | tense | unsettled |
White Heat (1949) | Struggle | 0:50:50 - Cody crawls on the floor | agitated | crawling | falling | gangster | headache | headache effect | helping | leading man | machine | mad scene | murderer | pain | prison | prisoner | self-borrowing | tense | undercover agent | unsettled |
White Heat (1949) | Big Ed's Death | 1:18:41 - Big Ed runs | dark | death | dramatic | dying | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | moll | murder | murderer | murder scene | room | running | rushing | shooting | violence |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:19:20 - Big Ed's body falls down the stairs | dark | death | dramatic | falling | fugitive | gangster | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | moll | murderer | murder scene | panning shot | room | stairs | staring | statue | stinger | undercover agent | underscoring | watching |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:46:13 - Cody shoots man in back | action scene | agent | death | dramatic | dying | factory | falling | fugitive | gangster | gun | gunshot | leading man | mickey-mousing | murder | murderer | shooting | tear gas | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Danger (Extended) | 1:47:06 - Cody sends men out | action scene | agent | death | dying | factory | falling | fugitive | gangster | gun | gunshot | leading man | murderer | police | pushing | rushing | shooting | tense |
White Heat (1949) | White Heat (Police Raid) | 1:47:47 - Police advance on the gangsters | action scene | advancing | agent | death | dramatic | dying | factory | falling | fugitive | gangster | gun | gunshot | hidiging | leading man | mickey-mousing | murder | murderer | police | raid | searching | shooting | shootout | tense |
White Heat (1949) | Falling and dying | 1:48:09 - Gangster falls down | action scene | death | descending | dramatic | dying | factory | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | mickey-mousing | police | raid | shootout | tense |
White Heat (1949) | Falling down stairs | 1:48:21 - Gangster falls down the stairs | action scene | death | descending | dramatic | dying | factory | falling | gangster | gun | mickey-mousing | police | raid | shootout | stairs | tense |
The Woman in White (1948) | Pavan (Garden) | 0:33:09 - Marian talks to Fosco | arguing | conversing | cousin | falling in love scene | garden | instrument effect | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | Renaissance music | somber | watching |
The Woman in White (1948) | Pavan (Agitato) | 0:33:43 - Walter argues with Laura | agitated | arguing | argument | falling in love scene | garden | leading lady | leading man |
The Woman in White (1948) | The Self Banished | 0:34:22 - Walter apologizes to Laura | embracing | falling in love scene | garden | kissing | leading lady | leading man | romance | tender |
The Woman in White (1948) | Laura runs | 0:34:56 - Laura runs off | falling in love scene | garden | hurried | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | running | rushing |
The Woman in White (1948) | Fosco (Dying) | 1:45:34 - The Countess picks up the necklace | arriving | climax | criminal | death | dramatic | dying | falling | friend | knife | leading lady | leading man | love interest | murder | murderer | necklace | revenge | rising | room | stinger | tense | victim | violent | wife |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:07:14 - May falls to her death | circus | dark | death scene | dying | falling | performer | trapeze | underscoring |
We're Only Human (1935) | Lost Patrol 2 | 1:06:45 - Berger falls to the ground | climax | conflict | death | detective | dramatic | dying | falling | gangster | gunshot | hostage | leading man | murderer | room | tone cluster | underscoring |
Without Honor (1949) | Chasing bus | 0:38:22 - Jane runs after the bus | action scene | bus | chasing | dramatic | falling | leading lady | mickey-mousing | running | street |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Iron Door (Collapsing) | 0:08:23 - Bob collapses on the beach | action scene | beach | calm | collapsing | falling | foreshadowing | leading man | mysterious | ship wreck |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Tree falling | 0:43:14 - A tree falls | action scene | arrow | count | dark | dramatic | falling | jungle | knife | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | shooting | trap | victim | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Rock Falling | 0:46:09 - A rock falls into a crevice | action scene | dramatic | falling | jungle | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | rock | splashing | stinger | tumbling | victim |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Trap Falling | 0:47:47 - The trap collapses | action scene | count | dramatic | falling | gun | jumping | jungle | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | stinger | trap | victim | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Chase (Furioso) | 0:52:13 - Eve runs towards a log | agitated | barking | chase scene | chasing | count | dark | dog | dramatic | falling | jungle | leading lady | leading man | log | mickey-mousing | running | servant | victim | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Dog falling | 0:54:06 - A dog falls down | chase scene | cliff | dog | dramatic | falling | jungle | mickey-mousing | tense |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Waterfall | 0:54:20 - Rushing water | chase scene | chasing | dog | falling | flowing | jungle | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | planning | river | running | shirt | splashing | tense | trap | victim | water effect | waterfall |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Chase | 0:54:43 - A dog falls into the water | chase scene | dog | dramatic | falling | flowing | jungle | mickey-mousing | river | splashing | tense | waterfall |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Dog falling 2 | 0:55:37 - Bob kills the dog | attacking | climax | count | dog | dramatic | falling | fighting | jungle | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | river | servant | tense | victim | villain | waterfall |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Falling off cliff | 0:55:47 - Bob and the dog fall off the cliff | climax | count | death | dog | dramatic | dying | falling | gun | gunshot | jungle | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | river | servant | shooting | tense | victim | villain | waterfall |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:01:05 - Tartar falls dead to the ground | castle | corpse | death | dramatic | dying | escaping | falling | gun | gunshot | knife | leading lady | leading man | servant | underscoring | victim |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Russian Waltz (Impossible) | 1:01:37 - Zaroff collapses | arrow | boat | castle | collapsing | count | dark | death | dying | falling | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | victim | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Falling out of window | 1:01:53 - Zaroff falls out of the window | boat | castle | count | death | dramatic | dying | escaping | falling | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | tense | victim | villain |
Caged (1950) | Falling | 1:01:18 - Marie falls to the ground | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | falling | guard | leading lady | mad scene | mickey-mousing | octatonic scale | prison | prisoner | throwing |
Caged (1950) | Harper's Death | 1:27:19 - Kitty stabs Harper with a fork | added-note chord | dark | death | dying | dying | falling | falling | fork | killing | minor-major 7th chord | murder | murdering | murder scene | prison | screaming | stabbing | stabbing | stinger | walking | walking |
Mara Maru (1952) | Dropping anchor | 1:00:18 - The anchor drops | action scene | anchor | antagonist | bodyguard | captain | dramatic | dropping | falling | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | private eye | ship | ship |
Mara Maru (1952) | Dropping anchor | 1:11:18 - The anchor drops | action scene | anchor | antogonist | dramatic | dropping | falling | leading lady | love interest | mickey-mousing | private eye | ship | ship |
Mara Maru (1952) | Beam falling | 1:15:57 - A beam collapses | action scene | beam | boat | captain | collapsing | dark | descending | diver | diving | diving suit | dramatic | falling | leading man | lighting | mickey-mousing | ocean | ship | underwater | working |
Mara Maru (1952) | Beam falling 2 | 1:16:34 - A beam collapses on the air hose | action scene | beam | boat | captain | collapsing | dark | descending | diver | diving | diving suit | dramatic | falling | hose | leading man | mickey-mousing | ocean | ship | treasure | underwater | working |
Mara Maru (1952) | Gauge falling | 1:17:42 - Falling air pressure on a gauge | action scene | antogonist | boat | captain | descending | diver | dramatic | falling | gauge | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | private eye | rain | relief | ship | storm | worker |
Mara Maru (1952) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:19:10 - Gregory falls to the deck floor | action scene | antogonist | boat | captain | diver | diving suit | dramatic | falling | leading lady | leading man | love interest | private eye | rain | ship | storm | treasure | underscoring | wind | worker | yelling |
Mara Maru (1952) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:20:01 - Benedict grabs the cross | action scene | antogonist | arguing | captain | cross | diver | dramatic | falling | leading lady | leading man | love interest | ordering | private eye | punching | rain | ship | storm | tense | treasure | underscoring | wind | worker |
Mara Maru (1952) | Rolling down the hill | 1:24:58 - Gregory rolls down the hill | antogonist | bodyguard | chase scene | cross | dark | descending | dramatic | falling | frantic | gun | jungle | leading man | mickey-mousing | murderer | rain | rolling | storm | tense | wind |
Mara Maru (1952) | Cross (Tense) | 1:27:07 - Gregory grabs Manuelo | arguing | cross | falling | hut | hymn-like | leading lady | leading man | love interest | religious | slapping | tense | turning point | worker |
Mara Maru (1952) | Ortega is Shot | 1:34:42 - Ortega is shot | action scene | antagonist | blocking | bodyguard | catacomb | cave | climax | cross | death | dramatic | dying | falling | gun | gunshot | leading man | martyr | murder | murderer | passionate | sentimental | shooting | somber | tunnel | victim |
Mara Maru (1952) | The Fight | 1:35:20 - Gregory fights Benedict | action scene | antagonist | attacking | catacomb | cave | choking | climax | dramatic | falling | fighting | hitting | leading man | martyr | mickey-mousing | murderer | punching | stinger | tense | tunnel | victim |
Mara Maru (1952) | Rolling down the stairs | 1:36:05 - Benedict falls down the stairs | action scene | antagonist | catacomb | cave | climax | corpse | death | descending | dramatic | falling | leading man | martyr | mickey-mousing | murderer | rolling | stinger | tense | tunnel | victim |