| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Murder | 1:51:56 - The Duke advances towards the Duchess | approaching | blur | climax | dark | duchess | duke | leading lady | leading man | menacing | murder | murdering | murder scene | ominous | room |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Poison Victim | 1:07:50 - Rocks is poisoned | dissonant | doctor | gangster | leading lady | leading man | murder | murderer | murdering | murder scene | mysterious | office | parallel fifths | poison | poisoning | quartal chord | tense | tone cluster | tritone |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Poison | 1:08:46 - Rocks feels the effect of the poison | blur | chromatic parallelism | diminution | doctor | dreaming | drugs | ethereal | gangster | layering | leading lady | leading man | murder | murderer | murdering | murder scene | office | oscillation | ostinato | pc set | poison | poisoning | polychord | stinger | tone cluster |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Rocks struggles and falls | 1:09:52 - Rocks tries to get up, then collapses | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | death | doctor | down | drugs | dying | falling | gangster | leading lady | leading man | murder | murderer | murder scene | office | oscillation | poison | rising | split-third chord | struggling | tense | up |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor (Funebre) | 1:10:07 - Dr. Clitterhouse talks with Jo | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | dark | death | doctor | gangster | leading lady | leading man | murder | murderer | murder scene | office | pleading | realizing | tense |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor (Murder) | 1:10:49 - Montage of newspaper headlines | chromatic parallelism | corpse | dark | dissonant bass | fingerprints | headlines | investigating | montage | morgue | mortician | murder | newspaper | police | printing press | tense | triadic transformation |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Rocks (Dead) | 1:11:10 - Rocks's mugshot and fingerprints | dark | fingerprints | investigating | montage | morgue | mortician | mug shot | murder | police | tense |
| Are These Our Children? (1931) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Eddie Sings) | 0:40:40 - The boys leave the scene of the crime | friend | leading man | murderer | murder scene | nervous | singing | source music | street | walking |
| 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) | 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 |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Jones falls | 1:29:50 - Jones falls and dies | death | death scene | dying | falling | leading man | mickey-mousing | murder | mysterious | poison | private eye | room | victim | violent |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:30:01 - Marlowe investigates the crime scene | dark | death | death scene | dying | leading man | murder | private eye | room | tense | underscoring | victim |
| Caged (1950) | Harper's Death | 1:27:19 - Kitty stabs Evelyn with a fork | death | fork | lunchroom | murder | prison | screaming |
| City for Conquest (1940) | Misterioso | 1:13:36 - Googi leaves | criminal | gangster | leaving | locker room | manager | murder scene | mysterious |
City for Conquest (1940) | Googi (The Car) | 1:13:38 - Googi in the car | car | car | conversing | criminal | driving | gangster | manager | murder scene | ominous | tense |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A1 (Ominous) | 1:14:02 - Googi talks with the boxing managers | arguing | car | car | criminal | driving | gangster | manager | murder scene | ominous | tense |
City for Conquest (1940) | Shooting and dying | 1:14:23 - Googi shoots Dutch | car | car | criminal | dramatic | dying | gangster | gun | manager | mickey-mousing | murder | murderer | murdering | murder scene | shooting | stinger | tense |
City for Conquest (1940) | Googi (The Car) | 1:14:32 - Googi threatens Cobb | car | car | criminal | driving | gangster | manager | murder | murderer | murder scene | ominous | tense | threatening |
City for Conquest (1940) | Googi (Hysterical) | 1:14:42 - Cobb pleads for mercy | begging | car | car | criminal | driving | gangster | manager | murder | murderer | murder scene | ominous | tense |
City for Conquest (1940) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:14:48 - Googi threatens Cobb | car | car | criminal | driving | gangster | manager | murder | murderer | murder scene | ominous | tense | threatening |
City for Conquest (1940) | Slap | 1:14:53 - Googi slaps Cobb | car | car | criminal | gangster | manager | mickey-mousing | murder | murderer | murder scene | ominous | slapping | tense |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A1 (Very Rough) | 1:15:00 - The car pulls to a stop | arriving | car | criminal | dark | dock | driving | gangster | manager | murderer | murder scene | threatening |
City for Conquest (1940) | Googi (Dead Man) | 1:15:09 - They pull out the dead man | car | conversing | corpse | criminal | disposing | dock | gangster | manager | murderer | murder scene | ominous | tense | working |
City for Conquest (1940) | Gun falls | 1:15:13 - A gun falls to the ground | car | corpse | criminal | dock | dropping | gangster | gun | manager | mickey-mousing | murderer | murder scene | ominous | tense |
City for Conquest (1940) | Googi (Molto Mysterioso e Screwyoso) | 1:15:19 - Cobb sees the gun | car | conversing | corpse | criminal | disposing | dock | gangster | manager | murderer | murder scene | ominous | tense | working |
City for Conquest (1940) | Kicks body | 1:15:22 - Googi kicks the body into the water | corpse | criminal | dock | dropping | gangster | kicking | manager | mickey-mousing | murderer | murder scene | ominous | tense |
City for Conquest (1940) | Throws gun away | 1:15:30 - Googi throws a gun in the water | criminal | dock | gangster | gun | manager | mickey-mousing | murderer | murder scene | ominous | tense | throwing |
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 A1 (Death) | 1:15:39 - Googi dies | criminal | dock | dying | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | manager | murderer | murdering | murder scene | ominous | shooting | slumping | tense |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | So Help Me (If I Don’t Love You) | 0:05:54 - Johnnie and Goldie relaxing | drinking | floozy | jaunty | kissing | leading man | murder scene | popular song | radio | room | source music |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | When a Prince of a Fella Meets a Cinderella | 0:06:23 - Johnnie talks to his manager | dancing | drinking | floozy | jaunty | laughing | leading man | murder scene | parallel double period | partying | radio | room | source music |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Saving Myself For You (I’ve Been) | 0:08:02 - Johnnie at a party | AABA structure | attacking | conversing | drinking | fighting | floozy | jaunty | leading man | murder | murdering | murder scene | partying | radio | room | source music | violence |
| Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 1:40:02 - Detectives tell Clementi of Zina's death, note, and phone call | dark | detective | flashback | murder | note | poison | suicide | underscoring |
| Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:05:24 - Frank is framed for drunk driving | 9th chord | attacking | car | conflict | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | gangster | hero | leading man | minor second | murder | pushing | reporter | setup | street | underscoring | violence |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Don’t Give Up the Ship | 0:26:47 - Prison orchestra plays | arriving | entering | military band | murder scene | on-screen music | orchestra | parallel double period | patriotic | prison | prisoner | source music |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Wings Over the Navy | 0:28:04 - Prisoners watch a movie | dying | film music | knife | movie | murdering | murder scene | patriotic | prison | prisoner | source music | watching |
| The FBI Story (1959) | Waving Goodbye | 0:02:20 - Son waves goodbye to his mother on the plane | airport | departure | menacing | murder | plane | suspense |
The FBI Story (1959) | Time Bomb 1 | 0:02:31 - Plane takes off and flies through the air | bomb | machine | menacing | murder | plane | suspense | ticking | time bomb |
The FBI Story (1959) | FBI March A (Doloroso) | 1:12:36 - Sam dies in Chip's arms | death | FBI | flashback | murder |
| Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Amato | 1:20:16 - News of Mario's death | brash | cut from film | death | montage | montage | murder | suicide | typing |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:30:27 - Steve tells Anna that Mario was murdered | advance plot | conversing | dark | investigator | leading man | murder | ominous | priest | room | shock | wife |
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) | Lye's Death | 1:32:58 - Lye is killed | action scene | brash | gangster | harsh | leading man | murder | murdering | shooting | street | violence |
| 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) | Police Car (Agitato) | 0:11:10 - Newspaper man reads the headline out and sells a paper to the reporter | murder | newspaper |
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) | Menace | 1:21:20 - Frank orders Andy to kill Vic | murder | villain |
| Key Largo (1948) | Rocco 2 (Dead Body) | 1:14:20 - Sheriff discovers the dead body | alarmed | conflict | corpse | discovering | horror | hotel | mickey-mousing | murder | police | rolling |
Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:14:48 - Sheriff finds out that it is Sawyer | conflict | corpse | discovering | dramatic | hotel | murder | realizing | sheriff | tense | underscoring |
Key Largo (1948) | Rocco (Tense) | 1:15:03 - Rocco claims the Indians murdered Sawyer | angry | boss | conflict | dock | gangster | lying | murder | police | tense | violent |
| The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Shimmery) | 0:02:57 - Leslie stands over the dead body | cloud | death | home | moon | murder | murderer | murder scene | mysterious | oscillation | plantation | sequence | watching |
The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Revolver) | 0:03:43 - Leslie talks with the workers | conversing | gun | home | murderer | murder scene | oscillation | sequence | servant | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Native 2 | 0:04:12 - Leslie talks with the workers and asks them to leave | conversing | home | murderer | murder scene | open fifth | pentatonic | servant | stinger | tense | underscoring |
The Letter (1940) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:04:29 - Leslie leaves the room | home | leaving | murder scene | mysterious | servant | underscoring |
The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Mysterioissimo) | 0:04:42 - Worker looks around the room | home | leading lady | light | looking | murder scene | mysterious | oscillation | parallel fifths | servant | turning on |
The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Crying) | 0:04:55 - Leslie cries in the other room | crying | home | leading lady | murder scene | mysterious | oscillation |
The Letter (1940) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:06:04 - Worker talks to Robert | action scene | conversing | death | dramatic | husband | murder | servant | underscoring | warehouse |
The Letter (1940) | Letter 2 | 0:15:28 - Robert comforts Leslie | advance plot | comforting | crying | gentle | home | leading lady | murder | pedal tone |
The Letter (1940) | Andante Doloroso | 0:15:53 - Men walk outside to look at dead body | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | dark | death | murder | plantation | reveal | servant | sinister | walking |
The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Dark) | 0:16:09 - Men look at dead body | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | creeping | dark | death | distortion | investigating | murder | pc set | plantation | servant | shadow | sinister |
The Letter (1940) | Murder | 0:18:36 - Howard explains that Leslie could be charged with murder | advance plot | eating | home | leading lady | murder | mysterious | stinger | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Tragic) | 1:17:59 - Leslie confesses to Robert | confessing | conflict | dramatic | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | letter | murder | oscillation | recounting | sequence |
The Letter (1940) | Hammond B (Ethereal) | 1:18:13 - Leslie confesses to Robert | chromatic sequence | confessing | conflict | dramatic | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | letter | murder | oscillation | recounting |
The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Dramatic) | 1:18:32 - Leslie confesses to Robert | confessing | conflict | crying | dramatic | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | letter | murder | oscillation | recounting | sequence |
The Letter (1940) | Letter 2 (Mournful) | 1:19:00 - Robert cries after hearing the confession | conflict | crying | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | letter | mournful | murder | pedal tone | sad |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Revenge) | 1:33:01 - Mrs. Hammond stabs Leslie | antagonist | Chinese | Chinese | climax | dagger | leading lady | murder | open fifth | parallelism | pentatonic | plantation | somber | walking |
| Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Menace (Somber) | 0:17:50 - Trev reveals who he is to Shelly | murder | newspaper |
| 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) | Mildred (Murder) | 0:01:59 - Bullet holes in the mirror | dark | death | dying | leaving | murder | murder scene | room | somber |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Murdered Man | 0:10:06 - Wally discovers the body | action scene | corpse | dark | death | dramatic | friend | looking | mickey-mousing | murder | room | telephone | tense | victim |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Phone rings | 0:10:16 - Phone rings | action scene | death | friend | mickey-mousing | murder | ringing | room | telephone | tense | victim |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:10:21 - Wally reacts to the situation | action scene | breaking | death | dramatic | escaping | friend | hurrying | mickey-mousing | murder | room | running | smashing | sneaking | telephone | underscoring | victim | walking | worrying |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:13:03 - Mildred leaves with the detectives | advance plot | conversing | detective | heroine | leading lady | murder | street | tense | underscoring |
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 |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Ominous) | 1:47:42 - Mildred rushes in to check on Veda | antagonist | confessing | dark | daughter | heroine | leading lady | lying | murder | murderer | murder scene | ominous | room |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred B (Angry) | 1:48:06 - Veda confesses to Mildred | angry | antagonist | confessing | confession | daughter | heroine | leading lady | lying | murderer | murder scene | room | tense |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Troubled) | 1:48:22 - Veda pleads for help to escape | antagonist | begging | confessing | daughter | distressed | frantic | heroine | leading lady | murderer | murder scene | room |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Ominous) | 1:48:41 - Mildred calls the police | antagonist | begging | daughter | heroine | leading lady | murderer | murder scene | ominous | room | tense |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:48:54 - Veda asks her mother not to turn her in | antagonist | begging | daughter | heroine | leading lady | murderer | murder scene | room | tense | underscoring |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Returning Home 2) | 1:49:17 - Veda convinces her mother to not report her | antagonist | crying | daughter | heroine | leading lady | loving | mother | murderer | murder scene | room | sacrificing | tender | warm |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Drifting) | 1:14:30 - David gives Leni money for her travels | altered dominant | arrest | arresting | chromatic parallelism | conflict | conversing | dark | death | familiar tune | folk song | gentle | German | happy | hero | heroine | mode mixture | murder | police | quotation | sad | sweet | tense | train station | whole-tone chord |
| White Heat (1949) | Trap | 0:44:53 - Motor slowly moves over Cody's head | machine | mickey-mousing | murder | prison | trap |
| 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 |
| Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Violent) | 0:12:29 - Newspaper headline | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | headline | murder | murder scene | newspaper | transcribed by ear | violent |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Hazel murders husband | 0:12:36 - Hazel murders her husband | double exposure | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | headline | husband | knife | murder | murderer | murdering | murder scene | newspaper | room | stabbing | stinger | transcribed by ear | victim | violent |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Dramatic Agitato | 0:12:41 - Hazel screams | augmented sixth chord | chromatic scale | double exposure | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | headline | letter | murder | murderer | murder scene | newspaper | room | screaming | stinger | transcribed by ear | victim | violent |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Exotic) + The Train | 0:23:07 - Helen points the gun at herself and cries | antagonist | combination of themes | crying | exotic | exoticism | gun | Gypsy major scale | hypnotic | murderer | murder scene | pedal tone | suicide | tense | train | train | transcribed by ear | traveling | victim |
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 |
