| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | The Aunts (Frightened) | 0:39:58 - The aunts see shadows at the door | augmentation | aunt | conversing | crazy person | dark | establish character | fear | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | knocking | leading lady | murderer | mysterious | Neapolitan | ominous | parallel 63s | pedal tone | room | shadow | whispering |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | The Aunts (Frightened) | 0:44:00 - The aunts go into the kitchen | augmentation | aunt | brother | conversing | crazy person | criminal | doctor | establish character | fear | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | leading lady | leading man | murderer | mysterious | Neapolitan | ominous | parallel 63s | pedal tone | room | walking | watching |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | The Aunts (Frightened) | 0:45:22 - The aunts peek through the kitchen window | aunt | brother | conversing | crazy person | criminal | doctor | establish character | face | fear | leading lady | leading man | murderer | mysterious | Neapolitan | ominous | parallel 63s | pedal tone | room | snooping | watching |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Jonathan 2 | 0:49:12 - Jonathan threatens the aunts | advance plot | aunt | brother | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | crazy person | criminal | dark | dissonant bass | doctor | fear | leading lady | leading man | murderer | ominous | pc set | room | threatening |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Scar | 0:49:36 - Dr. Einstein calls to Jonathan | advance plot | aunt | brother | crazy person | criminal | dark | doctor | fear | leading lady | leading man | murderer | ominous | pc set | polychord | room | threatening |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Scar (Tense) | 0:58:39 - Close-up on Dr. Einstein's face | advance plot | bride | brother | calling | close-up | crazy person | darkness | doctor | entering | fear | fragmentation | leading lady | leading man | murderer | polychord | room | sneaking | tense |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Jonathan 2 | 0:58:55 - Jonathan emerges from the shadows | advance plot | bride | brother | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | conversing | crazy person | darkness | dissonant bass | doctor | fear | leading lady | leading man | murderer | pc set | questioning | room | sinister |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Jonathan 2 (Ominous) | 1:00:36 - Jonathan backs Elaine into a corner | advance plot | anger | augmented triad | bride | brother | chromatic scale | crazy person | dissonant bass | doctor | fear | hurting | leading lady | leading man | murderer | ominous | polychord | questioning | room | stinger | tense | threatening |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:01:21 - They take Elaine into the cellar | 9th chord | aunt | bride | brother | chromatic scale | conflict | crazy person | darkness | diminished 7th chord | doctor | dramatic | fear | fighting | gagging | harmonic sequence | leading lady | leading man | metric dissonance | murderer | oscillation | room | running | self-borrowing | struggling | suspenseful | underscoring |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | The Aunts (Frightened) | 1:01:49 - Aunts talk to Jonathan | arguing | aunt | brother | conflict | crazy person | fear | fragmentation | leading lady | leading man | murderer | Neapolitan | parallel 63s | pedal tone | room | tense |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Molto Agitato | 1:29:57 - Jonathan ties Mortimer to a chair | 9th chord | brother | captive | chromatic parallelism | conflict | crazy person | diminished 7th chord | doctor | dramatic | fear | gagging | leading man | mickey-mousing | murderer | room | stinger | tying | victim |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | The Victim | 1:30:11 - Mortimer tied up in a chair | brother | captive | conflict | crazy person | doctor | fear | leading man | murderer | ominous | parallel fifths | quartal chord | room | tense | tone cluster | torturing | tritone | victim |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Knives | 1:31:05 - Mortimer looks at the knives | acceleration | brother | captive | chromatic parallelism | close-up | conflict | crazy person | diminution | doctor | fear | layering | leading man | murderer | ominous | oscillation | ostinato | pc set | polychord | room | tense | tone cluster | torturing | victim |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Panic | 1:31:48 - Einstein agrees to do the torture | alcohol | brother | captive | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | crazy person | doctor | dramatic | fear | leading man | murderer | oscillation | panicked | panicking | polychord | room | sequence | split-third chord | tense | torturing | victim |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Scar (Fast) | 1:32:11 - Einstein finds some wine | alcohol | brother | captive | conflict | crazy person | doctor | dramatic | fear | hurrying | leading man | murderer | panicking | polychord | room | tense | torturing | victim |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | How Dry I Am (Mysterious) | 1:32:25 - Einstein and Jonathan start to drink the wine | alcohol | brother | captive | conflict | crazy person | doctor | drinking | familiar tune | fear | leading man | murderer | mysterious | polychord | room | victim | whole-tone chord |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:32:35 - They toast to Mortimer | alcohol | brother | captive | clinking | conflict | crazy person | doctor | fear | glass effect | leading man | murderer | mysterious | pc set | polychord | room | tense | toasting | underscoring | victim |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Bugle Call | 1:32:56 - Teddy plays the bugle | brother | bugle | bugle call | captive | conflict | crazy person | doctor | dramatic | fear | leading man | murderer | on-screen music | playing | room | source music | victim |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Running and jumping | 1:42:10 - Man runs away | action scene | criminal | fear | jumping | mickey-mousing | outside | running | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Misterioso) | 1:47:26 - Marlowe drops a bullet | climax | fear | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mysterious | private eye | room | shaking | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe 2 | 1:47:31 - Car pulls up outside | climax | fear | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mysterious | private eye | room | shaking | tense | tritone |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Carmen (Drugged) | 1:48:08 - Marlowe watches men outside | climax | criminal | fear | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mysterious | ominous | planning | private eye | room | tense | waiting |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:48:32 - Men approach the house | climax | fear | leading man | mysterious | ominous | planning | private eye | room | tense | underscoring | waiting |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Conceals Himself) | 1:48:43 - Marlowe hides behind the curtain | climax | fear | hiding | leading man | mysterious | private eye | room | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Misterioso) | 1:48:55 - Marlowe sneaks up behind Mars | climax | criminal | fear | hiding | leading man | mysterious | private eye | room | sneaking | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe 2 | 1:49:05 - Marlowe holds a gun on Mars | climax | criminal | fear | leading man | mysterious | ominous | private eye | room | sneaking | tense |
| Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:30:08 - Guards take Frankie inside | begging | chromatic scale | dissonant bass | dragging | dramatic | escape | fear | reformatory | teenager | tense | warden |
Crime School (1938) | The Whip | 0:30:15 - The warden uses his whip | begging | dramatic | escape | fear | reformatory | teenager | tense | warden | whip | whipping |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:28:51 - The sheriff comes in | conflict | dark | diminished 7th chord | entering | fear | leading man | room | sheriff | surprise | tense | underscoring |
| Deep Valley (1947) | Wind | 1:12:11 - Libby listens carefully | afraid | convict | escape | fear | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | wind | wind effect | worrying | yard |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Fleeing | 0:34:56 - Joe and Mabel flee | alley | chromatic scale | danger | down | escape | fearful | fleeing | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | mickey-mousing | police | runaway | running | street | suspenseful |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Injustice) | 0:35:25 - Joe and Mabel talk in the alley | 9th chord | alley | chromatic parallelism | escape | fearful | leading lady | leading man | runaway | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Fear and Devotion) | 0:35:50 - Joe and Mabel decide to stick together | alley | common-tone diminished 7th | devotion | dramatic | escape | fear | fragmentation | leading lady | leading man | love | mode mixture | obsessive | runaway | street |
| Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Amato | 0:14:48 - Mario runs to talk to Amato | conductor score | establish character | fearful | hurried | office |
| Key Largo (1948) | Rocco 2 (Agitato) | 0:46:26 - Look of horror on Gaye's face | boss | conflict | father | fear | gangster | horror | hostage | hotel | leading lady | leading man | look of horror | moll | stinger | watching |
Key Largo (1948) | Rocco (Conflict) | 0:47:39 - Gaye looks terrified | boss | conflict | danger | father | fear | gangster | gun | horror | hostage | hotel | leading lady | leading man | look of horror | moll | staring | stinger | threatening | violence |
Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:48:10 - Rocco shoots Deputy Sawyer | boss | conflict | death | dramatic | father | fear | gangster | gun | gunshot | horror | hostage | hotel | leading lady | leading man | look of horror | moll | shooting | stinger | tense |
| The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Risoluto) | 0:37:07 - Howard reads the letter to Leslie | anxious | augmented triad | buildup | chromatic parallelism | fearful | fragmentation | lawyer | leading lady | letter | oscillation | pc set | pivotal scene | polychord | prison | reading | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Tragic) | 0:37:21 - Howard talks to Leslie | anxious | changing meter | climax | conversing | fearful | lawyer | leading lady | letter | oscillation | pivotal scene | prison | sequence | sequential modulation | suspension | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie B (Screwyoso) | 0:37:34 - Howard talks to Leslie | anxious | chromatic sequence | conversing | fearful | lawyer | leading lady | letter | pivotal scene | prison | sequence | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Shimmery 3) | 0:37:54 - Howard talks to Leslie | anxious | conversing | fearful | lawyer | leading lady | letter | oscillation | pivotal scene | prison | sequence | sequential modulation | stinger | suspension | 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) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:46:12 - Shelly is scared and can't move | cliff | fear | heights | heroine |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Mournful (Uneasy) | 1:16:15 - Trev comes out and talks with Shelly | concerned | fear |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Menace (Worried) | 1:22:36 - Liza wanders through the house | confusion | fear | headlights |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Secret Revealed | 1:18:59 - Veda talks to her mother | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | conflict | conversing | daughter | fear | friend | heroine | leading lady | linear chromaticism | octatonic chord | room | surprise | tense |
| Out of the Fog (1941) | Russian Barcarolle (Fear) | 0:21:18 - Officer Magruder arrives | boat | chef | conflict | conversing | criminal | dock | extortion | father | fear | fisherman | friend | leading man | police | sandwich | solemn | somber |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Morgue | 1:12:37 - The morgue | action scene | arriving | conversing | corpse | death | fear | leading lady | morgue | ominous | police | tense |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Russian Barcarolle (Dead) | 1:13:15 - Stella sees Goff's body | action scene | arguing | corpse | crying | dark | death | fear | leading lady | morgue | ominous | police |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Danger | 0:08:19 - Man appears in the shadows and attacks Chris | advance plot | antagonist | danger | fear | house | leading lady | monophonic | shadow | sinister | walking |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Agitated) | 0:53:11 - Chris sees the place where the body was | advance plot | distressed | fearful | leading lady | obsession | ostinato | room | staring |
| Thirteen Women (1932) | Drum Roll | 0:06:18 - June and May perform | circus | death scene | fear | performer | preparing | source music | tense | trapeze |
| The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Emotions | 0:29:42 - Eve comes in | agitated | candle | castle | conversing | fear | leading lady | leading man | tense | turning point |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Emotions 2 | 0:29:59 - Eve talks with Bob | agitated | candle | castle | conversing | fear | leading lady | leading man | tense | turning point |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Emotions (Agitato) | 0:37:04 - The iron door | action scene | agitated | castle | descending | door | fear | leading lady | opening | running | rushing | screaming | tense |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Emotions 2 (Agitato) | 0:37:23 - Eve runs to Bob | action scene | agitated | arriving | castle | conversing | count | fear | leading lady | leading man | mute | prisoner | servant | tense | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Approach (Fear) | 0:51:35 - Bob and Eve stop | agitated | chase scene | crocodile | dark | dramatic | fear | jungle | leading lady | leading man | running | stopping | victim |
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