| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duchess (Molto Screwieoso) | 0:44:50 - Henriette looks at a gift from the Duchess | 64 chord | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | distressed | gift | governess | leading lady | looking | opening | pedal tone | room | stinger |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Very Emotional) | 0:49:01 - The Duke looks at Henriette | advance plot | child | chromatic scale | common-chord modulation | common-tone diminished 7th | conversing | delicate | duke | gentle | governess | leading lady | leading man | looking | romance | romantic | room |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Crying | 2:12:15 - Pierre looks at Henriette | 64 chord | caretaker | chromatic scale | crying | detective | devastated | leading lady | looking | palace | prisoner | soldier | somber | suspect | transition |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Heaven Theme (Resolution) | 2:21:31 - Henriette reacts to Henry | gentle | leading lady | looking | minister | resolution | school | sweet | teacher |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Foxtrot | 1:02:20 - Rocky and Laury look out the window | added-note chord | altered dominant | common-tone diminished 7th | dreaming | foxtrot | gangster | hoping | leading lady | leading man | looking | love scene | mode mixture | romantic | room |
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Comical) | 0:02:20 - Mortimer hides from the reporters | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | comical | disguise | establish character | hiding | leading lady | leading man | looking | marriage | office | reporter | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Wind blowing | 0:13:48 - Wind blows the curtains at the window | advance plot | aunt | blowing | chromatic parallelism | leading lady | looking | mysterious | room | wind | wind effect |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Wind blowing 2 | 0:52:32 - The aunts walk to the window | advance plot | aunt | blowing | chromatic parallelism | crazy person | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | looking | murderer | mysterious | room | wind | wind effect | window |
| Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Misterioso) | 1:09:23 - Rosa looks through the binoculars | anger | binoculars | forest | friend | hunting | husband | leading lady | leading man | looking | murder scene | mysterious | ominous | tense | victim |
| Caged (1950) | Marie (Main Title) | NIF - not in film | augmented sixth chord | car | cut from film | dark | guard | leading lady | looking | opening title sequence | police car | prisoner | tense |
| Crime School (1938) | The Warden (Risoluto) | 0:29:03 - Warden looks for Frankie | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | escape | looking | reformatory | searching | tense | warden |
Crime School (1938) | Marks | 0:36:14 - Mark looks at the whip marks on Frankie's back | advance plot | dark | hospital | leading man | looking | reformatory | teenager | violence | warden | wounded |
| Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:10:50 - Libby looks out the window | convict | escape | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | looking | love interest | room | searching | tense | underscoring | yard |
| Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Anna | 1:25:41 - Amato looks at the statue | advance plot | gangster | leading man | looking | mysterious | religious | room | tense |
| I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Family | 0:25:26 - Matt looks at a photo album | advance plot | baby | common-tone modulation | deceptive resolution | double exposure | flashback | foreign key modulation | gentle | leading man | letter | looking | love | memory | mode mixture | photograph | room | self-borrowing | sentimental | smiling | son | tender | thinking | undercover agent | voice-over | writing |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Family (Molto Expressivo) | 0:26:15 - Matt writes a letter to his son | 9th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | baby | deceptive resolution | double exposure | flashback | foreign key modulation | gentle | leading man | letter | looking | love | memory | photograph | room | self-borrowing | sentimental | smiling | son | tender | thinking | undercover agent | voice-over | writing |
| The Informer (1935) | Rule, Britannia! | 0:02:32 - Close-up on the 20 pound reward on the poster | British | dark | establish character | familiar tune | leading man | linear chromaticism | looking | mode change | patriotic tune | poster | source music | street | tense |
The Informer (1935) | Blood Money + Blind Man | 0:20:27 - Gypo looks at Frankie's poster again | advance plot | antagonist | combination of themes | leading man | looking | mysterious | poster | street | tense | whole-tone |
| 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 |
Key Largo (1948) | McCloud (Slowly) | 1:24:14 - McCloud and Nora exchange glances | advance plot | hotel | leading lady | leading man | looking | love interest | somber |
| The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Mysterioissimo) | 0:04:42 - A shadow appears | circle of fifths | common-chord modulation | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | home | leading lady | light | looking | murder scene | mysterious | oscillation | parallel fifths | servant | turning on |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Guilty) + Foxtrot No. 1 | 1:20:53 - Leslie looks at the full moon | advance plot | combination of themes | dagger | dramatic | home | leading lady | looking | moon | oscillation | polytonality | stinger | suspension |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond + Foxtrot No. 1 B | 1:21:15 - Leslie looks around | advance plot | Chinese | combination of themes | dagger | dance music | foxtrot | home | leading lady | looking | mysterious | open fifth | parallel fifths | pentatonic | polymeter | polytonality | source music | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Climactic) | 1:30:02 - Leslie sees that the knife is gone | climax | dagger | door | home | leading lady | looking | oscillation | passionate | sequence |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (The Moon) | 1:31:36 - Leslie sees the moon go behind a cloud | climax | cloud | crying | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | looking | moon | oscillation | pc set | plantation | sequence |
| Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly and Trev (Smile) | 0:20:20 - Shelly looks at Trev | actor | calm | establish character | leading lady | leading man | looking | morning | peaceful | room | sleeping | smiling | staring | suspect | thinking | waking |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Trev (Triste) | 0:38:59 - Trev enters the store | actor | advance plot | arriving | leading lady | leading man | looking | somber | staring | store | suspect | watching | whispering | worker |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly and Trev (Expressivo) | 0:52:14 - Shelly sees Trev's portrait | actor | butler | leading lady | looking | portrait | ranch | solemn | transition | waiting |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Menace (Expressivo) | 1:22:56 - Liza looks out the window | actor | arriving | car | dark | leading lady | looking | menacing | murderer | obsessive | ranch | rancher | room | turning point | watching | worrying |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Murdered Man | 0:10:06 - Wally discovers the body | action scene | corpse | dark | death | dramatic | friend | linear chromaticism | looking | mickey-mousing | murder | room | split-7th chord | telephone | tense | victim |
| White Heat (1949) | Verna (Glance) | 0:14:04 - Verna looks at Big Ed | bluesy | car | dark | female | looking | murder scene | smiling |
White Heat (1949) | Agents (Chase) | 0:22:33 - The agents notice Ma's car | advance plot | agent | car | looking | observing | panning shot | stinger | street | tense |
White Heat (1949) | Misterioso (Tense) | 0:40:12 - Hank looks around | advance plot | gangster | leading man | looking | murderer | mysterious | photograph | prison | prisoner | tense | undercover agent | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Police Raid | 1:43:09 - Gangster acting as lookout | action scene | arriving | factory | fugitive | gangster | leading man | looking | march | murderer | police | running | rushing | tense | undercover agent |
White Heat (1949) | Bo Creel (Misterioso) | 1:43:26 - Bo Creel tells Cody that Hank is a cop | action scene | discovering | discovery | factory | fugitive | gangster | guard | leading man | looking | murderer | mysterious | realizing | undercover agent |
| Without Honor (1949) | The End | 1:06:25 - Bill in the middle of the road | anger | antagonist | brother | dramatic | leading man | looking | resolution | standing | street | The End |
| The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Getting up | 0:08:51 - Bob rises to his feet | barking | beach | establish setting | leading man | looking | mickey-mousing | mysterious | rising | standing | tense |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Russian Waltz (The Sea) | 0:09:15 - The ocean | beach | dramatic | establish setting | leading man | looking | ocean | wave effect |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Russian Waltz (The Castle) + The Iron Door | 0:09:42 - Count Zaroff's castle | approaching | castle | combination of themes | establish setting | jungle | leading man | looking | ominous | walking |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Emotions (Dramatic) | 0:39:00 - Bob and Eve take one last look back | action scene | dramatic | jungle | leading lady | leading man | looking | walking |
| Caged (1950) | Marie (Checking Out) | 1:32:47 - Marie opens an envelope | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | dramatic | guard | leading lady | leaving | looking | polychord | prison | prisoner | ring | solemn | throwing |
Caged (1950) | Molto Expressivo (Slowly) | 1:32:59 - Marie's mugshot | advance plot | leading lady | leaving | looking | mode mixture | mug shot | Neapolitan | prison | prisoner | solemn | throwing | warden |
| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (The End) | 2:22:31 - The End | countermelody | deceptive resolution | end title sequence | grand | leading lady | looking | minister | mode mixture | plagal cadence | school | snow | teacher | The End |
| Mara Maru (1952) | Gregory (Close-Up) | 1:12:20 - A close-up of Gregory | action scene | antogonist | captain | close-up | diver | diving suit | dramatic | leading lady | leading man | looking | love interest | preparing | private eye | ship | ship | tense | worker |
Mara Maru (1952) | Cross (Cello Solo) | 1:36:55 - Manuelo mourns Ortega's death | catacomb | cave | corpse | cross | crying | death | hymn-like | leading lady | leading man | looking | love interest | martyr | reacting | resolution | solemn | somber | thinking | tunnel | victim | worker |
Mara Maru (1952) | The End | 1:37:33 - Gregory gives the cross to Manuelo | catacomb | cave | corpse | cross | crying | death | deciding | departing | end title sequence | fade-out | leading lady | leading man | looking | love interest | map | martyr | reacting | redmption | religious | religious | resolution | The End | thinking | triumphant | tunnel | victim | worker |
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