Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Newspaper Editor | 1:10:09 - A newspaper editor accepts Jerry's story | accepting | conversing | heroic | leading man | montage | montage | newspaper editor | newspaper office | priest | secondary dominant |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Jerry + Tear Gas | 1:21:14 - Rocky staggers through tear gas and Jerry arrives | agitated | arriving | building | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | gangster | heroic | hurrying | leading man | mickey-mousing | priest | quartal chord | smoke | staggering | street | tear gas |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Jerry (Pleading) | 1:21:26 - Jerry talks to the cops | building | conflict | deceptive resolution | heroic | hopeful | leading man | pleading | priest | street |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Jerry (Maestoso) | 1:22:13 - Jerry enters the building | building | conflict | entering | foreign key modulation | heroic | hopeful | leading man | pedal tone | priest | street | walking |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Jerry (End Title) | 1:36:38 - End title | closing credits | diminished 7th chord | end title sequence | foreign key modulation | heroic | plagal cadence | triumphant |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Chevalier Audubon | 0:13:14 - Marlowe writes on note card | advance plot | heroic | leading man | library | private eye | researching | writing |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Heroic) | 0:21:28 - Marlowe enters the house | action scene | breaking in | heroic | leading man | private eye | running | street |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Determined) | 0:47:56 - Marlowe enters the apartment building | arriving | ascending | bold | determined | heroic | investigating | investigation scene | leading lady | leading man | private eye | stairs | street | walking |
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 (Action) | 0:57:01 - Marlowe runs to his car | assassin | chase scene | chasing | dramatic | heroic | leading man | murderer | private eye | running | street | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Bold) | 1:45:44 - Marlowe and Vivian get out of the car | bold | heroic | leading lady | leading man | love interest | outside | private eye | transition | walking |
Crime School (1938) | The Boiler Room | 0:54:27 - Boys talk about stoking the boiler | action scene | auctioning | boiler room | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | dissonant bass | fanfare | gang | heroic | reformatory | teenager | working |
Crime School (1938) | Fireman | 0:56:46 - Boiler room worker orders kids back | action scene | fanfare | gang | heroic | parallelism | pedal tone | protecting | reformatory | rushing | teenager | worker | yelling |
Crime School (1938) | Mark Saves Boy | 0:57:29 - Mark carries Squirt up the stairs | action scene | ascending | authentic cadence | dissonant bass | hero | heroic | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | rising | stairs | teenager | walking |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Peggy | 0:00:25 - Director credit | 9th chord | 11th chord | 13th chord | bold | cast list | chromatic mediant | foreign key modulation | heroic | main title | opening title sequence | tritone substitution |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Printing Press | 0:14:10 - A printing press | 64 chord | dark | dissonant bass | fanfare | headline | heroic | mode change | montage | montage | motoric | newspaper | oscillation | printing press |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Grandioso) | 0:50:50 - Joe and Mabel outside | 42 chord | 64 chord | deceptive resolution | escaping | friend | heroic | jail break | leading lady | leading man | pedal tone | shopkeeper | street | triumphant |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | The Daily Journal | 1:00:10 - Sign for The Daily Journal | establish setting | fanfare | heroic | mode mixture | Neapolitan | newspaper | sign | street | triumphant |
The FBI Story (1959) | FBI March A | 0:04:33 - Film title, main cast | bold | cast list | FBI | heroic | main title | march |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Steve | 1:36:31 - Steve surfaces | dock | gentle | heroic | inspector | leading man | resolution from here on? | swimming |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Steve | 1:37:30 - Steve gets off the boat | arriving | boat | bold | dock | gangster | heroic | inspector | leading man | police |
The Informer (1935) | The Irish Washerwoman (Pub) + Blood Money + The Wearin' o' the Green + The Informer | 0:44:52 - People celebrate in the pub | advance plot | antagonist | bar | chaotic | chromatic scale | close-up | combination of themes | crowd | dark | dissonant bass | excited | familiar tune | folk song | foreign key modulation | happy | heroic | Irish | layering | leading man | mob | mobbing | octatonic | parallelism | pedal tone | polytonality | rebel | serving | source to score | spying | tense | whole-tone | yelling | zoom in |
The Informer (1935) | The Wearin' o' the Green (Somber) | 0:57:08 - Dan and Mary talk about the rebel organization | 64 chord | conversing | diminished 7th chord | familiar tune | folk song | hero | heroic | love interest | love scene | room | tense |
Key Largo (1948) | McCloud | 0:11:41 - Nora talks about her husband George | conversing | establish character | heroic | hotel | leading lady | leading man | memorializing | noble |
Key Largo (1948) | McCloud (Noble) | 0:14:28 - Frank talks about George and the war | advance plot | death | father | heroic | hotel | leading lady | leading man | memory | noble | remembering | storytelling | war |
Key Largo (1948) | McCloud (Bugle Call) + Taps | 0:16:31 - Mr. Temple asks Frank about George's burial place | advance plot | bugle call | combination of themes | death | father | heroic | hotel | leading lady | leading man | memory | noble | remembering | somber | storytelling | taps | war |
Key Largo (1948) | McCloud (Noble) | 0:21:22 - Nora and Frank talk about her life | advance plot | heroic | hotel | leading lady | leading man | memory | noble | remembering | storytelling |
The Letter (1940) | Runners | 0:05:14 - Workers run through jungle | action scene | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | heroic | jungle | running | sequential modulation | servant | tense |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Risoluto) | 0:33:23 - Mildred resolves to give her daughter nice things | 64 chord | advance plot | child | determined | heroic | heroine | leading lady | noble | promising | resolved | room |
Kid Galahad (1937) | Kid Galahad (Montage) | 0:46:47 - Montage of newspaper headlines | 64 chord | advance plot | appoggiatura | boxer | boxing | boxing ring | cheering | chromatic parallelism | fanfare | fragmentation | harmonic sequence | heroic | leading man | montage | newspaper |
Kid Galahad (1937) | Kid Galahad (Montage 2) | 1:18:47 - Newspaper headline montage | 64 chord | chromatic mediant | climax | fanfare | foreign key modulation | heroic | hurrying | manager | montage | newspaper | pedal tone | room | syncopation |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Attorney | 0:42:51 - Close up of sign on the lawyer's door | deceptive resolution | door | glorious | heroic | law office | office | sign | transition |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Dramatic) | 0:44:05 - Chris goes to visit Larry's office | advance plot | arriving | fanfare | heroic | law office | leading lady | mode mixture | office |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Attorney (Doorbell) | 0:53:31 - Chris takes off her jacket | advance plot | arriving | heroic | lawyer | leading lady | room | stinger | surprise |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Attorney | 1:09:14 - Larry drives to the art shop | deceptive resolution | driving | heroic | lawyer | street | transition |
White Heat (1949) | T-Men (Maestoso) | 0:15:01 - Pan of city then fade to Treasury office door in Los Angeles | heroic | noble |
White Heat (1949) | T-Men | 0:19:03 - Agents gather information about the car | heroic | noble |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Mysterioso Dramatico | 0:45:01 - Bob and Eve look for Zaroff | action scene | conversing | fanfare | heroic | jungle | leading lady | leading man | preparing | tense | victim | watching |