All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Pleading | 0:22:41 - The Duchess pleads with the Duke to stay | acceleration | agitated | arguing | chromatic sequence | distressed | duchess | duke | establish character | fragmentation | leading lady | leading man | parallelism | pleading | room |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Desperation (Furioso) | 0:22:53 - The Duchess curses the Duke | agitated | arguing | dissonant bass | distressed | duchess | duke | establish character | leading lady | leading man | parallelism | pleading | priest | room | tense |
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 |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Pleading | 1:11:08 - Laury pleads for Rocky | 9th chord | advance plot | appoggiatura | circle of fifths | common-chord modulation | crying | leading lady | leading man | love interest | pleading | priest | room | somber |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Jerry | 1:11:35 - Jerry talks to Laury | 9th chord | advance plot | deceptive resolution | foreign key modulation | leading lady | leading man | love interest | memory | pleading | priest | room | tender |
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) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:33:36 - Rocky pleads for his life | begging | climax | cowardice | crowd | crying | death | execution | execution chamber | gangster | leading man | pleading | police | priest | prison | shadow | tense | tone cluster | underscoring | wailing |
Caged (1950) | Marie (Dramatic) | 0:52:43 - Marie pleads with her mother to take the baby | 9th chord | altered dominant | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | despair | dramatic | leading lady | mother | nurse | pleading | prison | prisoner | tragic | turning point |
Caged (1950) | Prison (Tragic) | 0:52:48 - Marie calls after her mother | added-note chord | augmented sixth chord | chromatic sequence | despair | dramatic | leading lady | mother | nurse | pleading | prison | prisoner | sigh gesture | tragic | turning point |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Clementi's Mother (The Letter) | 1:31:34 - Bridget reads a letter to Clementi from his mother | flashback | folk-like | letter | mother | pleading |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Clementi C (Tense) | 1:45:52 - Clementi tells his mother of Zina's death, and his plan to get out of the country with all of his money | deception | flashback | mother | pleading |
Deep Valley (1947) | Libby (Slowly) | 0:34:53 - Libby leaves her mother | conflict | dark | leading lady | leaving | lightning | mother | pleading | room | somber | storm | tense | thunder |
Deep Valley (1947) | Triste (Stormy) | 0:35:16 - Shutters shaking in the wind | conflict | dark | leading lady | leaving | lightning | mother | pleading | room | somber | storm | thunder |
Deep Valley (1947) | Libby 2 (Stormy) | 0:35:27 - Waves hitting the shore | conflict | construction site | crew | dark | leading lady | leaving | mother | pleading | storm | tense | waves | working |
Deep Valley (1947) | Libby 2 (Frantic) | 1:36:05 - Ellie calls after Libby | barn | begging | climax | convict | frantic | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mother | pleading | tense |
Deep Valley (1947) | Libby (Running) | 1:36:13 - Libby and Barry run out of the barn | barn | begging | climax | convict | father | frantic | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mother | pleading | running | rushing | tense | yard |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Pleading) | 0:17:41 - Mabel pleads for Joe | advance plot | intervallic expansion | leading lady | pleading | prison | sincere | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Arguing) | 0:55:00 - Mabel confronts Joe | agitated | arguing | conflict | dark | leading lady | leading man | parallelism | pc set | pleading | room |
In This Our Life (1942) | Expressivo (Extended) | 1:27:04 - Lavinia rises | added-note chord | arguing | chromatic scale | climax | criminal | emotional | father | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | mother | pleading | retardation | room | suspect |
The Informer (1935) | Pleading | 1:08:57 - Peter defends himself | added-note chord | anxious | chromaticism | courtroom | courtroom scene | defending | headquarters | pleading | room | stinger | suspect |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Tranquillo) | 1:16:35 - Gypo is taken away | antagonist | arresting | authentic cadence | climax | confessing | confession | courtroom | courtroom scene | crying | guilt | headquarters | hero | leading man | leaving | love interest | pleading | remorseful | room | traitor |
Key Largo (1948) | Moanin’ Low (Appassionato) | 1:25:01 - Gaye pleads for Rocco to take her along | advance plot | boss | deceiving | deception | desperate | desperation | familiar tune | gangster | hotel | moll | pleading | sentimental |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Waltz Fantasy) | 1:44:53 - Mildred tells Veda not to confess | 9th chord | appoggiatura | chromatic parallelism | detective | harsh | heroine | interrogating | interrogation | leading lady | pleading | police station |
White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:12:14 - Zuckie pleads with Cody | conversing | dark | death | funereal | gangster | leading lady | leading man | moll | mother | murderer | murder scene | pleading | room | underscoring | victim |
White Heat (1949) | Zuckie's Death | 0:12:29 - Cody ignores Zuckie | crying | dark | death | departing | funereal | gangster | leading lady | leading man | moaning | moll | mother | murderer | murder scene | pleading | room | somber | victim |
Mara Maru (1952) | Cross (Maestoso Religioso) | 1:33:02 - Ortega offers Gregory the cross | advance plot | arguing | catacomb | cave | cross | giving | hymn-like | leading man | pleading | reacting | religious | suspsect | tense | tunnel |
Mara Maru (1952) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:33:38 - Ortega pleads with Gregory | advance plot | arguing | catacomb | cave | cross | leading man | pleading | suspsect | tense | tunnel | underscoring |
Roar of the Dragon (1932) | An Old Adobe | 1:06:58 - | desperate | pleading |