All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Molto Moderato) | 1:04:10 - Women in prison | double exposure | headline | leading lady | montage | newspaper | pacing | prison | prisoner | solemn | suspect | walking |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Heaven Theme (Expressivo) | 2:05:06 - Henry talks to Henriette | advance plot | calm | conversing | gentle | leading lady | minister | pleasant | prison | prisoner | suspect |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Dolce | 2:05:51 - Henriette talks to Henry | advance plot | calm | conversing | gentle | leading lady | minister | pleasant | prison | prisoner | suspect |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Underscoring (Tense) | 2:06:17 - Henriette argues with Henry | advance plot | arguing | leading lady | minister | prison | prisoner | suspect | tense | underscoring |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Heaven Theme (Delicato) | 2:06:34 - Henry talks to Henriette | advance plot | calm | conversing | gentle | leading lady | minister | pleasant | prison | prisoner | suspect |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Raynald (Delicato) | 2:06:46 - Henry talks to Henriette | advance plot | conversing | delicate | leading lady | minister | prison | prisoner | suspect | tender | tense | worrying |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Heaven Theme (Dolce) | 2:06:58 - Henry talks to Henriette | advance plot | conversing | gentle | leading lady | minister | prison | prisoner | suspect |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (The Truth) | 2:07:07 - Henry talks to Henriette | advance plot | calm | conversing | leading lady | minister | prison | prisoner | suspect |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Ostinato) | 2:10:09 - A carriage leaves | carriage | crowd | dramatic | leading lady | mob | ominous | ostinato | prisoner | soldier | street | suspect | tense | transition | traveling |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Underscoring (Tense) | 2:10:17 - A carriage arrives at the palace | arriving | carriage | leading lady | prisoner | soldier | street | suspect | tense | transition | traveling | underscoring |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duke (Maestoso) | 2:10:50 - Henriette enters the Duke's palace | arriving | dark | hearing voices | leading lady | palace | prisoner | soldier | spooky | suspect | transition | uneasy |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Ghostly) | 2:11:23 - Henriette hears voices | arriving | dark | hearing voices | leading lady | palace | prisoner | soldier | spooky | suspect | transition | uneasy |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Serious) | 2:11:50 - Henriette arrives upstairs | arriving | detective | hearing voices | leading lady | palace | prisoner | serious | soldier | solemn | somber | suspect | transition |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Crying | 2:12:15 - Pierre looks at Henriette | caretaker | crying | detective | devastated | leading lady | looking | palace | prisoner | soldier | somber | suspect | transition |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Noble) | 2:13:19 - Henriette comes into the Duke's room | arriving | dark | death scene | detective | duke | dying | hopeful | leading lady | leading man | noble | prisoner | room | soldier | suspect |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Dying | 2:13:46 - The Duke in his death bed | conversing | death bed | death scene | detective | duke | dying | leading lady | leading man | prisoner | questioning | room | sad | soldier | suspect |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Duet) | 2:14:06 - A close-up on Henriette | conversing | death bed | death scene | detective | duke | dying | leading lady | leading man | prisoner | questioning | room | sad | soldier | suspect | tender |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Funereal) | 2:14:27 - Henriette leaves the Duke | conversing | death bed | death scene | detective | duke | dying | funeral march | leading lady | leading man | prisoner | questioning | room | sad | soldier | suspect |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Gangster (Reformatory) | 0:05:04 - Sign: "Society for Juvenile Delinquents" | establish character | main title | Neapolitan | prisoner | reformatory | serious | sign | somber | teenager |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Gangster (Fingerprints) | 0:06:17 - Montage of juvenile detention and prison life | digging | dramatic | establish character | fingerprints | foreign key modulation | headline | leading man | main title | marching | montage | mug shot | newspaper | prison | prisoner | reformatory | sequence | serious | working |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:07:26 - Rocky talks with his lawyer | advance plot | conversing | dark | dissonant bass | gangster | lawyer | leading man | mysterious | prison | prisoner | underscoring |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Gangster (Maestoso) | 0:08:07 - Discharge papers from the penitentiary | common-chord modulation | common-tone diminished 7th | ledger | main title | marching | mickey-mousing | montage | prison | prisoner | serious | solemn | transition | writing |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Eddie’s Prayer) | 1:22:14 - Eddie behind bars | added-note chord | climax | crying | dramatic | jail | leading man | murderer | praying | prisoner | religious | sacred |
His Greatest Gamble (1934) | The Chase 1 | 0:29:26 - Philip escapes from prison | augmented triad | dark | escaping | frantic | leading man | montage | montage | prisoner | sequence | train | transcribed by ear | traveling | whole-tone scale |
His Greatest Gamble (1934) | The Chase 2 | 0:29:44 - Montage of Philip's escape | boat | dark | frantic | leading man | montage | montage | parallelism | prisoner | transcribed by ear | traveling |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Mysterioso | 0:02:00 - Warden talks to Joe | conversing | drone | establish character | leading man | mysterious | parallelism | polytonality | prison | prisoner | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Injustice) | 0:02:29 - Joe reacts to the warden | 9th chord | 64 chord | agitated | chromatic parallelism | conversing | dramatic | establish character | injustice | leading man | prison | prisoner | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Marching | 0:10:10 - Inmates marching | establish location | leading man | march | marching | parallelism | pedal tone | prison | prisoner | somber |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Charlie | 0:10:58 - Charlie talks to inmates | conversing | dark | drunk | establish character | leading man | polychord | prison | prisoner | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Hiccough | 0:11:35 - Charlie hiccups | comical | drunk | establish character | hiccuping | leading man | mickey-mousing | prison | prisoner | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Cow | 0:11:39 - Man calls Charlie a cow | comical | cow | drunk | establish character | leading man | mickey-mousing | mooing | prison | prisoner | stinger | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Charlie (Extended) | 0:11:41 - Charlie talks to inmates | chromatic parallelism | dark | drunk | establish character | leading man | prison | prisoner | sequence | slapping | stinger | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Marching | 0:12:27 - Inmates marching | establish character | march | marching | pedal tone | prison | prisoner | somber |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Comedy fall | 0:13:08 - Joe falls over while milking the cow | barn | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | comical | falling | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | mickey-mousing | prisoner |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Humorous) | 0:13:13 - Joe talks to the cow | barn | chromatic parallelism | comical | conversing | cow | diminished triad | dissonant bass | leading man | lovers meet | prisoner | underscoring |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Playful) | 0:13:38 - Mabel talks to Joe | barn | comical | common-tone diminished 7th | cow | laughing | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | playful | prisoner | romantic |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Joe fights cow | 0:13:56 - Joe fights cow (off-screen) | augmented triad | barn | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | comical | cow | diminished 7th chord | fighting | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | mickey-mousing | prisoner |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Laughing) | 0:14:07 - Mabel laughs at Joe | barn | chromatic parallelism | comical | diminished 7th chord | laughing | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | prisoner |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Laughing | 0:14:10 - Mabel laughs at Joe | barn | chromatic parallelism | comical | diminished 7th chord | laughing | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | mickey-mousing | prisoner |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Agitated) | 0:14:22 - Joe argues with Mabel | agitated | arguing | barn | fragmentation | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | prisoner | sequence |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:14:40 - Charlie enters | barn | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | prisoner | stinger | tense | underscoring | villain | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Tense) | 0:14:53 - Joe talks to Charlie | barn | dark | dissonant | leading lady | leading man | lovers meet | prisoner | tense | tritone | villain | warden |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Expectant) | 0:18:08 - Mabel leaves | advance plot | expectant | gentle | guard | hopeful | leading lady | leading man | pedal tone | prison | prisoner | sweet |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Denied) | 0:18:23 - Mabel talks to Joe | conflict | deceptive resolution | denial | expectant | gentle | guard | hopeful | leading lady | leading man | prison | prisoner | stinger | sweet |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Turning around | 0:26:13 - Joe and Mabel turn around | 64 chord | barn | death | dramatic | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | prisoner | turning |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Walking | 0:22:22 - Man paces back and forth in the prison yard | advance plot | anxious | crazed | mickey-mousing | mysterious | pacing | pc set | prison | prisoner | walking |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Montage | 0:22:54 - Montage showing the passing of time | chromatic parallelism | clock | dramatic | linear chromaticism | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | prison | prisoner | tense | waiting | whole-tone chord |
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 |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Calendar Pages | 0:59:53 - Pages falling from a calendar | calendar | chromatic parallelism | diminished 7th chord | falling | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | mysterious | prisoner | sequence |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Clock ticking | 1:03:50 - Prisoners waiting | anxious | clock | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | polychord | prisoner | ticking | waiting |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Frank (Parole Denied) | 1:07:58 - Frank's parole is denied | 9th chord | common-tone diminished 7th | dark | despair | foreign key modulation | half-diminished 7th chord | hopeful | leading man | letter | prison | prisoner | reading | sigh gesture | solemn | turning point |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus 2 (Maestoso) | 0:41:11 - Women enter the prison | advance plot | dark | dramatic | leading lady | prison | prisoner | self-borrowing | walking |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lane (Lonely) | 0:41:27 - Lane talks to a fellow prisoner | advance plot | conversing | foreign key modulation | leading lady | lonely | prison | prisoner | reverse picardy | somber |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lane (Grazioso) | 0:41:46 - Lane talks to a fellow prisoner | advance plot | conversing | foreign key modulation | hopeful | leading lady | prison | prisoner | upbeat |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lane (Hopeful) | 0:41:58 - Lane talks to a fellow prisoner | advance plot | conversing | deceptive resolution | gentle | hopeful | leading lady | pedal tone | prison | prisoner |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lute Mae (A Reminiscence) | 0:42:04 - A female prisoner talks about Lute Mae's | 13th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | altered dominant | bluesy | conversing | countermelody | Gershwinesque | leading lady | prison | prisoner | self-borrowing |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lane (Fragmented) | 0:42:21 - Lane talks to a fellow prisoner | advance plot | conversing | fragmentation | leading lady | prison | prisoner | somber |
Flamingo Road (1949) | If I Could Be With You (Slowly) | 0:43:04 - Lane lies in bed | leading lady | montage | montage | prison | prisoner | staring | tragic |
Illegal (1955) | Funeral | 0:09:54 - Clary marches to his execution | execution | execution | priest | prison | prisoner |
In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Slowly 2) | 1:20:46 - Men playing checkers | checkers | conflict | criminal | dark | game | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | playing | prison | prisoner | somber | suspect | victim |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Somber) | 1:21:07 - Parry in his jail cell | conflict | conversing | criminal | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | prison | prisoner | somber | suspect | underscoring | victim |
In This Our Life (1942) | Minerva and Parry | 1:21:28 - Parry in his jail cell | conflict | conversing | criminal | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | lying | prison | prisoner | somber | suspect | tender | testifying | victim |
In This Our Life (1942) | Minerva and Parry (Triste) | 1:22:39 - Parry talks to Stanley | conflict | conversing | criminal | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | lying | prison | prisoner | solemn | somber | suspect | testifying | victim |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Liza | 0:02:55 - Trevelyan goes back to his cell | hopeful | prison | prisoner | reprieve |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby + Funeral March | 0:02:32 - Vergie in her jail cell | classical music | combination of themes | funeral | funeral march | leading lady | plagal cadence | pondering | prison | prisoner | sequence | somber | source music | suspect | watching |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Ending) + Funeral March (Ending) | 1:18:06 - Vergie in her jail cell | classical music | combination of themes | crying | funeral | funeral march | leading lady | prisoner | somber | suspect |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Very Ethereal) | 1:19:04 - Vergie exits the prison | daughter | dissonant bass | husband | leading lady | pedal tone | prison | prisoner | resolution | somber | suspect | tense | walking |
The Woman in White (1948) | Fosco (Marcato) | 1:08:44 - Fosco talks to the servant | antagonist | arguing | butler | confining | conflict | conversing | cousin | criminal | dark | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | prisoner | room |
The Woman in White (1948) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:09:11 - Marian is locked in | antagonist | confining | conflict | conversing | cousin | criminal | dark | dramatic | husband | leading lady | leading man | prisoner | room | underscoring |
The Woman in White (1948) | Asylum (Dark) | 1:09:26 - Fosco talks to Sir Percival | aching | antagonist | conflict | conversing | criminal | dark | headache | husband | illness | leading lady | leading man | pain | plotting | prisoner | room |
Three Who Loved (1931) | Old Folks At Home | 0:46:00 - Phil paces in a jail cell | advance plot | jail | leading man | on-screen music | playing | prisoner | somber | source music |
Hell’s Highway (1932) | Hikin' Jerry | 0:00:14 - Main titles and newspaper headlines | call and response | establish setting | guard | headline | montage | newspaper | opening title sequence | prison | prisoner | singing | solemn | source music | transcribed by ear | working |
Hell’s Highway (1932) | John Henry | 0:06:08 - Men working on a chain gang | advance plot | guard | on-screen music | pentatonic | prison | prisoner | singing | solemn | source music | transcribed by ear | working |
Hell’s Highway (1932) | Willie, the Weeper | 0:13:52 - Men singing in prison | advance plot | blue note | guard | on-screen music | prison | prisoner | singing | solemn | source music | spiritual | transcribed by ear |
Hell’s Highway (1932) | The Load is Heavy | 0:17:26 - Men singing in prison | advance plot | barbershop | cheerful | guard | on-screen music | prison | prisoner | singing | source music | transcribed by ear |
Hell’s Highway (1932) | Frankie and Johnny | 0:27:11 - Men singing in prison | advance plot | calm | guard | on-screen music | prison | prisoner | singing | source music | transcribed by ear |
Hell’s Highway (1932) | Tuning of Violin | 0:47:34 - A man tunes a violin | advance plot | calm | guard | on-screen music | playing | prison | prisoner | source music | tuning | violin |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | A Moment in the Dark | 0:14:05 - Curley turns on the radio | AABA structure | advance plot | comic | goofing around | office | prisoner | radio | source music | upbeat |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | Ain't That the Way it Goes | 0:14:53 - Spider and Curley look around | AABA structure | advance plot | comic | conversing | goofing around | love interest | office | prisoner | radio | source music | upbeat |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | I'm Just a Vagabond Lover | 0:17:00 - Curley talks to Barbara | ABAC structure | advance plot | comic | conversing | goofing around | love interest | office | prisoner | radio | sentimental | source music |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | I'm Wrapped Up in You | 0:18:18 - Spider dances with Violet | advance plot | comic | conversing | dancing | goofing around | love interest | office | prisoner | radio | source music | upbeat |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | Improvisation | 0:39:35 - Violet plays the piano and sings | advance plot | comic | comical | conversing | office | on-screen music | playing | prisoner | singing | source music |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | Improvisation | 0:40:44 - Violet plays the piano and sings | advance plot | comic | comical | conversing | office | on-screen music | playing | prisoner | singing | source music |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | Improvisation | 0:41:43 - Violet plays the piano and sings | advance plot | comic | comical | conversing | office | on-screen music | playing | prisoner | singing | source music |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | Chopsticks | 0:42:09 - Violet and Spider play a piano duet | advance plot | comic | comical | office | on-screen music | playing | prisoner | source music |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | Improvisation | 0:42:44 - Violet plays the piano and sings | advance plot | comic | comical | office | on-screen music | playing | prisoner | singing | source music |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | Eldorania | 0:59:14 - A doctor tends to Spider's leg | advance plot | athlete | comic | conversing | doctor | field | plotting | prisoner | referee | relative key | source music | treating | upbeat |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | El Capitan March | 1:01:51 - Spider makes Whitey sign a confession | advance plot | comic | criminal | field | plotting | prisoner | source music | upbeat |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | Bide-More Alma Mater | 1:04:44 - Bidemore celebrates their victory | celebrating | comic | crowd | field | love interest | politician | prisoner | resolution | source music | upbeat | warden |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | The Prisoner's Song | 1:05:19 - Spider talks to Violet | comic | conversing | field | prisoner | resolution | source music | upbeat |
Don’t Turn ‘em Loose (1936) | Crestwood C | 0:00:27 - Cast list | cast list | guard | Lydian mode | mysterious | opening title sequence | parallelism | prison | prisoner | transcribed by ear |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Iron Door (Tense) | 0:36:27 - Zaroff looks at Bob's watch | action scene | castle | commanding | count | leading man | mute | prisoner | servant | shackles | stinger | tense | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Walking | 0:36:42 - Zaroff walks to the door | action scene | agitated | castle | closing | count | leading man | marching | mickey-mousing | mute | preparing | prisoner | servant | tense | villain | walking |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Iron Door (Fangs and Claws) | 0:37:00 - Zaroff gives Bob a knife | action scene | castle | commanding | count | giving | knife | leading man | mute | preparing | prisoner | servant | tense | threatening | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Emotions 2 (Agitato) | 0:37:23 - Eve runs to Bob | action scene | agitated | arriving | castle | conversing | count | fear | leading lady | leading man | mute | prisoner | servant | tense | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Russian Waltz (Meno) + The Iron Door | 0:37:30 - Zaroff talks about the game | action scene | castle | combination of themes | conversing | count | leading lady | leading man | mute | prisoner | servant | tense | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:37:49 - Zaroff talks about the game | action scene | castle | conversing | count | leading lady | leading man | mute | prisoner | servant | tense | underscoring | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Zaroff (Molto Moderato) + The Iron Door | 0:38:01 - Zaroff talks about the game | action scene | castle | combination of themes | conversing | count | leading lady | leading man | mute | prisoner | servant | tense | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Courage + The Iron Door | 0:38:17 - Bob and Eve leave | action scene | agitated | castle | combination of themes | count | departing | leading lady | leading man | mute | prisoner | servant | tense | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Russian Waltz (Maestoso) | 0:38:32 - Bob and Eve are taken to the jungle | action scene | conversing | fanfare | jungle | leading lady | leading man | mute | ominous | preparing | prisoner | releasing | servant | walking |