The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor (Brass) + The Motor | 0:51:00 - Dr. Clitterhouse in the safe | anxious | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | combination of themes | criminal | dramatic | gangster | knocking | motor | ostinato | panicking | robbery | store | tense | thief |
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) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:58:10 - Someone knocks at the door | advance plot | brother | chromatic scale | conversing | corpse | crazy person | darkness | doctor | knocking | leading man | murderer | pc set | room | sequence | sneaking | tense | underscoring |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:14:26 - Mark talks to policeman | chromatic scale | conflict | deceptive resolution | gun | hero | heroine | hiding | knocking | leading lady | leading man | lying | mode mixture | pedal tone | police | room | teenager | tense | underscoring |
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) | Wally tries to open door | 0:08:53 - Wally tries to open the door | action scene | augmented triad | chromatic scale | door | frantic | friend | knocking | mickey-mousing | room | stinger |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Wally knocks on the door | 0:09:59 - Wally knocks on a door | action scene | door | dramatic | friend | knocking | mickey-mousing | room |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Drab | 0:24:36 - Stella in bed | advance plot | father | ignoring | knocking | leading lady | room | smoking | somber | tense | thinking | whispering |
Without Honor (1949) | Valse Triste (Suicide) | 0:58:33 - Jane stares in the mirror | antagonist | attempted suicide | bathroom | brother | climax | conversing | husband | knocking | leading lady | leading man | razor blade | room | somber | suicide | wife |
Without Honor (1949) | Valse Triste (Molto Appassionato) | 0:58:58 - Jane stares down | antagonist | attempted suicide | bathroom | brother | climax | conversing | dramatic | husband | knocking | leading lady | leading man | razor blade | room | suicide | wife |
Without Honor (1949) | Appassionato 2 (Molto Expressivo) | 0:59:06 - Jane cuts her wrist | antagonist | attempted suicide | bathroom | breaking | brother | climax | committing suicide | conversing | cutting | dramatic | entering | grabbing | husband | knocking | leading lady | leading man | razor blade | room | running | suicide | wife | yelling |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Iron Door | 0:00:14 - Large iron door | castle | cast list | door | door knocker | knocking | mysterious | opening | opening title sequence | statue | tense | title of film | zoom in | zoom out |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Russian Waltz (Whole Tone) + The Iron Door | 0:29:10 - Bob wakes up | barking | bed | castle | combination of themes | door | knocking | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | opening | sleeping | turning point | waking |
Mara Maru (1952) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:15:56 - Gregory picks up the phone | advance plot | arriving | conversing | discovering | dramatic | knocking | leading man | police | room | stinger | telephone | underscoring | worker |