The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Shadow punch | 0:45:00 - Watchman is punched by a shadowy figure | attacking | augmented sixth chord | crime | criminal | dramatic | fighting | gangster | guard | punching | robbery | shadow | store | violence | whole-tone |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:31:44 - Rocky punches a guard | agitated | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | climax | fighting | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | police | priest | prison | punching | tense | underscoring |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Take Me Out to the Ball Game | 0:01:20 - Fans yelling at a ball game | augmented sixth chord | baseball | baseball player | bass drum | cheering | crowd | enharmonic modulation | establish place | evaded cadence | falling | familiar tune | field | fighting | musician | parallel double period | pep band | playing | popular song | punching | rushed | saxophone | simulated source music | source music | sporting event | trombone | umpire | upbeat | yelling |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Punching and falling | 0:01:38 - A fight starts on the field | baseball player | dramatic | falling | field | mickey-mousing | punching | sporting event | umpire |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Sinister) | 0:58:24 - Marlowe takes Carol to Geiger's house | arriving | assassin | conflict | dark | gun | leading man | murderer | private eye | punching | sinister | stinger | street |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Investigating) | 1:22:38 - Marlowe looks at car registration | investigating | investigation scene | leading man | mysterious | private eye | punching | street | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Gets Hit) | 1:36:20 - The thug punches Marlowe | conflict | criminal | danger | dramatic | leading man | mickey-mousing | murderer | private eye | punching | shop |
City for Conquest (1940) | In the Evening | 0:45:08 - Peggy in her dressing room | arguing | boxer | conflict | conversing | crying | dancer | dressing room | leading lady | leading man | parallel double period | punching | source music | upbeat |
Deep Valley (1947) | Turns, Hits, and Falls | 0:22:28 - Barry hits the guard | boss | conflict | convict | dramatic | falling | father | guard | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | punching | stinger | street | turning | violence |
Deep Valley (1947) | Barry | 1:36:57 - Jeff hits Barry | arguing | attacking | car | climax | convict | dark | fighting | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | love interest | punching | street | tense | yelling |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Fight) | 0:25:41 - Charlie and Joe fight | 42 chord | barn | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | conflict | dramatic | fighting | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | mickey-mousing | octatonic scale | punching | villain | warden | whole-tone scale |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Amato falls | 1:36:20 - Amato falls in the water | action scene | boat | dock | dramatic | falling | fighting | gangster | inspector | leading man | mickey-mousing | punching | splashing | tense | water |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Dark [Waxman]) | 0:17:02 - Steve fights Felix | action scene | arguing | conversing | criminal | dark | death | dramatic | gambler | gun | gunshot | leading lady | leading man | love interest | owner | punching | room | self-defense | shooting | singer | stinger | tense | underscoring |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Tense [Waxman]) | 0:40:34 - Don punches Steve | action scene | boxing ring | criminal | fighting | gambler | henchman | leading man | punching | reporter | tense | underscoring |
Illegal (1955) | Punches man | 0:20:38 - Vic punches the man | bar | drunk | mickey-mousing | punching | violence |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:26:42 - Goff slaps Jonah | arguing | chef | conflict | criminal | dock | dramatic | extortion | falling | father | fisherman | friend | leading man | mickey-mousing | punching | slapping | stinger | underscoring | violence |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:06:59 - Goff hits George | boyfriend | conflict | criminal | dock | dramatic | falling | fighting | fisherman | friend | leading man | punching | violence |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:09:45 - Goff struggles with Jonah and Olaf | attempted murder | climax | criminal | dramatic | fighting | fisherman | friend | leading man | punching | sea | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Punches | 0:38:03 - Hank punches inmate | fighting | mickey-mousing | prison | punching |
White Heat (1949) | Fight | 1:26:51 - Hank fights with gangster and is caught by Cody | fighting | mickey-mousing | punching |
The Woman in White (1948) | Fight | 1:36:33 - Walter fights the spy | conflict | criminal | dramatic | fighting | husband | leading lady | leading man | murderer | patient | punching | spy | street | victim | wife |
We're Only Human (1935) | Kong 1 | 0:28:23 - Pete jumps on a criminal | action scene | bank | chromatic parallelism | detective | dramatic | fighting | gangster | jumping | leading man | pedal tone | punching | tense |
Without Honor (1949) | Valse Triste (Triple Beguin) | 1:05:18 - Fred starts to leave for the hospital | antagonist | arguing | brother | fighting | husband | leading man | punching | resolution | tense | yard |