| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Running and shooting | 0:06:52 - Police chase gangsters and Rocky shoots | agent | augmented triad | chasing | dissonant bass | dominant 7th chord | dramatic | establish character | gangster | gun | gunshot | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | newspaper | quartal chord | running | shooting | street | zoom out |
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) | Tear Gas | 1:19:48 - Tear gas spreads throughout the room | agitated | breaking | breaking | breathing | building | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | gangster | gun | gunshot | hurrying | leading man | mickey-mousing | pedal tone | police | quartal chord | running | shooting | smoke | street | tear gas | throwing | window |
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) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:20:39 - Policemen shoot tear gas in through the window | agitated | appoggiatura | building | conflict | dramatic | gangster | gun | gunshot | leading man | mickey-mousing | police | shooting | street | tone cluster | underscoring |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Launching tear gas | 1:20:51 - Policemen shoot tear gas in through the window | agitated | building | conflict | dramatic | gangster | gun | gunshot | launching | leading man | mickey-mousing | police | shooting | street | tear gas | tone cluster |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Pleading (Extended) | 1:21:00 - Jerry arrives on the scene | 9th chord | appoggiatura | arriving | chromatic sequence | circle of fifths | concerned | conflict | crowd | gun | gunshot | hurried | hurrying | leading lady | leading man | love interest | polychord | priest | pushing | street | yearning |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Tear Gas (Desperate) | 1:21:40 - Rocky tries to hold off the cops | agitated | building | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | gangster | gun | gunshot | leading man | mickey-mousing | pedal tone | police | priest | quartal chord | shooting | smoke | staggering | street | tear gas |
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 |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Running out | 0:56:36 - Marlowe runs after the killer | assassin | chase scene | chasing | combination of themes | dramatic | gun | gunshot | leading man | mickey-mousing | murder | murderer | private eye | room | running | stairs | stinger |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Down the Stairs + The Chase + Marlowe (Action) | 0:56:39 - Marlowe chases the killer down the stairs | assassin | chase scene | chasing | descending | dramatic | gun | gunshot | heroic | leading man | murderer | private eye | room | running | stairs | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Shoots) | 1:42:07 - Marlowe shoots off to the side | action scene | gun | gunshot | leading man | outside | private eye | shooting | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Echo) | 1:42:20 - Canino shoots at Marlowe | action scene | criminal | gun | gunshot | hiding | leading man | outside | private eye | shooting | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:43:17 - Canino shoots | action scene | criminal | dramatic | gun | gunshot | hostage | leading lady | leading man | love interest | outside | private eye | shooting | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Canino's Death | 1:43:22 - Canino is shot | action scene | criminal | death | dramatic | dying | falling | gun | gunshot | hostage | leading lady | leading man | love interest | outside | private eye | stumbling | tense |
| City for Conquest (1940) | Googi dies | 1:15:34 - Googi is shot | criminal | dock | dying | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | 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 | dock | dying | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | manager | murderer | murdering | murder scene | ominous | shooting | slumping | tense |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:46:42 - Mabel yells to Joe | chromatic scale | create suspense | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | dramatic | escaping | gun | gunshot | leading lady | leading man | police | room | runaway | running | street | underscoring | yelling |
| The FBI Story (1959) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:02:21 - Montage of mobster mischief | dramatic | flashback | gangster | gun | gunshot | mobster | underscoring |
The FBI Story (1959) | Ma Barker Dies | 1:32:41 - Ma Barker is shot and dies | death | flashback | gangster | gun | gunshot | mobster |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Flamingo Road (Andante) | 1:24:05 - Lane goes to get a drink for Field | altered dominant | chromatic parallelism | dark | death scene | gentle | gunshot | hopeful | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mode mixture | room | self-borrowing | suicide | walking | warm |
Flamingo Road (1949) | If I Could Be With You (Dead) | 1:24:41 - Lane sees Field has committed suicide | augmentation | death scene | discovering | gunshot | leading lady | leading man | love interest | reacting | room | suicide | surprise | tragic | violent |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Ostinato 3) | 1:31:25 - Titus holds a gun on Lane | climax | club | dramatic | fighting | gun | gunshot | leading lady | menacing | ostinato | self-borrowing | sequence | sheriff | struggling | tense | threatening |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Climax) | 1:31:43 - Lane struggles with Titus | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | climax | club | dramatic | fighting | gun | gunshot | leading lady | major 7th chord | self-borrowing | sequence | sheriff | struggling | tense |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Struggling | 1:31:47 - Close-up on the gun | climax | close up | club | dramatic | fighting | gun | gunshot | leading lady | major 7th chord | mickey-mousing | oscillation | sheriff | struggling | tense |
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) | Amato | 1:32:23 - Amato shoots Lye | action scene | brash | gangster | gun | gunshot | leading man | murder | murdering | room | shooting | tense | violence | yelling |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Amato | 1:34:08 - Steve confronts Amato | action scene | dock | dramatic | gangster | gun | gunshot | inspector | kidnapping | leading lady | leading man | shooting | tense |
| I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Commie is shot | 1:04:01 - Commie agent is shot and falls dead | death | falling | gunshot | mickey-mousing | stinger |
| Illegal (1955) | Victim | 0:00:25 - Woman (Gloria) brushes her hair then realizes a man is there who then shoots her | gun | gunshot | murder | sinister |
Illegal (1955) | The Bus | 0:46:09 - Man runs to catch bus and is shot | bus | gun | gunshot | murder | traveling |
Illegal (1955) | Frank Garland (Maestoso) | 0:46:33 - Crowd runs to help shot man and murderer smiles and walks away with hidden gun | gun | gunshot | murder | sinister |
Illegal (1955) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:07:30 - Ray and Ellen struggle at the window | gun | gunshot | heroine |
Illegal (1955) | Vic gets shot | 1:23:46 - Andy shoots Vic | gun | gunshot | hero | mickey-mousing | stinger |
Illegal (1955) | Frank Garland (Andy is shot) | 1:23:57 - Andy is shot, falls, and dies | death | gun | gunshot | villain |
| 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 |
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) | Rocco 2 (Setup) | 1:15:43 - Indians run from the sheriff | conflict | death | dock | fleeing | gun | gunshot | menacing | running | setup | sheriff | shooting | tense | violent |
Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:35:14 - McCloud shoots Rocco | boat | boss | conflict | death | dramatic | dying | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | leading man | mickey-mousing | shooting | stinger | tense |
| The Letter (1940) | Native | 0:01:21 - Men sleeping in hammocks | Dorian mode | dripping | establish location | exoticism | gamelan | gunshot | Indonesian music | melodic cell | mysterious | native | on-screen music | panning shot | pentatonic | plantation | playing music | quintal chord | setting | Singapore | sleeping |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Monte is shot | 0:01:50 - Monte is shot | collapsing | death | dying | falling | gun | gunshot | mickey-mousing | murder | murder scene | room | staggering | tragic |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Wally runs | 0:11:01 - Wally runs out of the house | action scene | beach | dramatic | friend | gun | gunshot | mickey-mousing | running | shooting | victim |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Monte is shot 2 | 1:47:28 - Monte is shot | antagonist | collapsing | death | dying | falling | gun | gunshot | mickey-mousing | murder | murderer | murder scene | room | staggering | tragic |
| White Heat (1949) | Danger (Cody Shoots) | 0:23:25 - Cody pulls a gun out and shoots at the agent | gun | gunshot |
White Heat (1949) | Big Ed's Death | 1:18:41 - Big Ed sees Cody and tries to escape out of the door before being shot in the back and falling down the stairs | death | gunshot | violence |
White Heat (1949) | Danger (Molto) | 1:46:13 - Men crawl around on floor with tear gas | gunshot | tear gas |
White Heat (1949) | Danger (Dramatic) | 1:47:06 - Cody sends men out and they are shot by agents | death | escaping | gangster | gunshot |
White Heat (1949) | White Heat B (Police Raid) | 1:48:01 - Shootout between the gangsters and police | gangster | gun | gunshot | police | shootout |
White Heat (1949) | Gangster gets shot | 1:48:07 - Gangster gets shot and falls down | death | gunshot | mickey-mousing | violence |
White Heat (1949) | Agents (Climbing) | 1:48:17 - Gangsters run up the stairs and agent shoots at them | agent | gunshot | rushing | stairs | up |
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) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:51:15 - Riley hits the ground | death | gunshot | stinger | violence |
White Heat (1949) | Cody Mocks | 1:51:30 - Cody shoots at agents and dares them to come up and get him | gangster | gun | gunshot | mocking |
White Heat (1949) | Cody's End | 1:52:26 - Cody shoots a gas valve and flames come rushing out | explosion | fire | gunshot |
| Transgression (1931) | Gong | 0:50:00 - Don Arturo is shot | death | dying | gun | gunshot | leading lady | love interest | murder | murderer | murdering | murder scene | room | tense | victim |
| Men of America (1932) | Cimarron C | 0:01:08 - Smokey Joe fights the Indians | ambush | common-chord modulation | cowboy | establish character | establish setting | fanfare | gun | gunshot | horse | Indian | leading man | noble | parallel double period | prairie | riding | self-borrowing | shooting | stagecoach | title card | transcribed by ear |
Men of America (1932) | Cimarron B (Transition) | 0:02:19 - Smokey Joe fights the Indians | ambush | chromatic mediant | cowboy | dramatic | establish character | establish setting | fragmentation | gun | gunshot | horse | Indian | leading man | prairie | riding | self-borrowing | shooting | stagecoach | tense | title card | transcribed by ear |
| Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Suicide) | 0:24:18 - Helen commits suicide | antagonist | chromaticism | committing suicide | dying | exotic | exoticism | gun | gunshot | hypnotic | murderer | murder scene | pc set | pedal tone | stinger | suicide | tense | train | train | transcribed by ear | traveling | victim |
| We're Only Human (1935) | Underscoring (Lyrical) | 0:23:23 - Pete exits the store | attempted murder | conflict | departing | detective | drive by shooting | food | gunshot | leading man | mode mixture | peaceful | pedal tone | shooting | street | underscoring | walking |
We're Only Human (1935) | The Escape (Hiding) | 0:27:05 - Pete and Danny dodge from gunfire | action scene | chromatic scale | detective | dodging | dramatic | gangster | gunshot | hiding | leading man | shooting | stinger | street | whole-tone chord |
We're Only Human (1935) | The Informer (Up the Stairs) | 0:27:17 - Pete prepares to advance | 64 chord | action scene | agitated | bank | chromatic sequence | detective | dodging | fragmentation | gangster | gunshot | hiding | leading man | preparing | running | stinger | tense |
| Don’t Turn ‘em Loose (1936) | Suicide Transition | 0:26:55 - Bob sits | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | gangster | guard | gun | gunshot | imposter | leading man | mysterious | parallelism | plotting | preparing | reading | robbery | room | sequence | shooting | store | transcribed by ear | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
Don’t Turn ‘em Loose (1936) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:28:05 - Bob shoots guard | breaking | death | dramatic | gangster | guard | gun | gunshot | imposter | leading man | murder | robbery | robbery | shooting | stealing | store | transcribed by ear | whole-tone chord |
Don’t Turn ‘em Loose (1936) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Dream Sequence) | 0:39:59 - Bob (Bat) pulls a gun on Grace | augmented sixth chord | cheerful | confronting | fragmentation | frantic | gangster | gun | gunshot | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | mirror shot | moll | murder | murderer | murder scene | popular music | reacting | room | screaming | sequence | shooting | simulated source music | source music | staring | tense | threatening | victim |
| Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Dark [Waxman]) | 0:17:02 - Steve fights Felix | action scene | arguing | conversing | criminal | dark | death | dramatic | gambler | gun | gunshot | leading lady | leading man | love interest | owner | punching | room | self-defense | shooting | singer | stinger | tense | underscoring |
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 | revenge | shooting | street | widow |
| We're Only Human (1935) | Lost Patrol 1 | 1:03:12 - A man runs | climax | conflict | detective | dramatic | fleeing | frantic | gunshot | leading lady | leading man | reporter | running | shooting | victim | whole-tone | whole-tone chord | yard |
We're Only Human (1935) | The Informer (Burning Poster) + Blood Money | 1:03:25 - A man falls to the ground | climax | conflict | crawling | detective | diminished 7th chord | dying | gunshot | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | octatonic | reporter | Scotch snap | shooting | tense | tone cluster | victim | yard |
We're Only Human (1935) | The Wearin' o' the Green (Fighting) | 1:03:42 - Pete prepares to advance | chromatic parallelism | climax | conflict | detective | dramatic | fragmentation | gunshot | leading lady | leading man | reporter | running | sequence | shooting | tense | underscoring | victim | yard |
We're Only Human (1935) | The Escape | 1:04:31 - Pete enters the house | chromatic scale | climax | conflict | detective | dodging | dramatic | gangster | gunshot | hiding | leading man | murderer | room | shooting | underscoring | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
We're Only Human (1935) | Game 5 | 1:05:03 - Pete prepares to shoot | chromatic parallelism | climax | conflict | detective | gangster | gunshot | leading man | murderer | pc set | pedal tone | room | shooting | sneaking | tense | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
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 |
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