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 |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Glass drops | 1:29:49 - Jones drops his glass | breaking | death | death scene | dropping | glass | leading man | mickey-mousing | murder | mysterious | poison | private eye | room | victim | violent |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Milkman) | 0:27:38 - Joe and Mabel talk to the milkman | advance plot | comical | glass | leading lady | leading man | milk | milkman | pizzicato | street |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Confusion | 0:05:43 - Frank sits confused in car after crash | accusing | car | car crash | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | confused | crowd | dissonant bass | fire | glass | half-diminished 7th chord | hero | injury | leading man | reporter | running | street | yelling |
The FBI Story (1959) | Attack | 0:35:13 - Klansmen attack the newspaper office | attacking | broken glass | flashback | KKK |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Throwing whiskey and glass | 1:12:08 - Titus throws whiskey in Field's face | alcohol | breaking | bullying | conflict | dramatic | glass | leading man | mickey-mousing | politician | room | sheriff | slamming | splashing | throwing | tone cluster | whole-tone scale |
Illegal (1955) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:02:18 - Ray empties his bottle of scotch down the drain | glass | mysterious | underscoring |
The Letter (1940) | Glass Curtains | 0:59:08 - Mrs. Hammond enters through the glass curtain | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | chromatic scale | conflict | curtain | entering | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | polyrhythm | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | waiting | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond + Glass Curtains | 1:00:13 - Leslie faces Mrs. Hammond | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | conversing | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | paying | pc set | pentatonic | polyrhythm | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | waiting | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie + Glass Curtains | 1:01:27 - Leslie removes her shawl | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | conversing | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | oscillation | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | polyrhythm | sequence | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | waiting | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie B + Glass Curtains | 1:01:57 - Leslie approaches Mrs. Hammond | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | confronting | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | polyrhythm | sequence | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | walking | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Glass Curtains | 1:02:21 - Leslie faces Mr. Hammond | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | chromatic scale | conflict | confronting | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | polyrhythm | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Contempt) + Glass Curtains | 1:02:40 - Leslie stoops down to pick up the letter | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | confronting | contempt | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | pentatonic | polyrhythm | shop | staring | stooping | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie B (Dark) + Glass Curtains | 1:02:50 - Leslie looks at the letter | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | confronting | curtain | dark | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | polyrhythm | sequence | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Solemn) + Glass Curtains | 1:03:08 - Leslie and Howard leave | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | pentatonic | polyrhythm | shop | solemn | staring | tinkling | tone cluster | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly 3 | 0:20:20 - Shelly sleeps and wakes up in the morning | glass | morning | sleeping | sun |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Trev (Ethereal) | 0:40:26 - Shelly and Liza look in the glass shop windows | glass | heroine | mysterious | underscoring |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Breaks door with chair | 0:10:47 - Wally smashes a glass door with a chair | action scene | breaking | chair | door | dramatic | friend | glass | mickey-mousing | room | smashing | victim |
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 |
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) | Work (Montage) | 1:34:44 - Montage of Mildred and Monte's marriage | cheerful | ex-husband | glass | heroine | leading lady | love interest | mickey-mousing | montage | newspaper | self-borrowing | shadow |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Glasses clink | 1:35:44 - Mildred and Monte clink glasses together | cheerful | clinking | glass | heroine | leading lady | love interest | mickey-mousing | montage |