| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Rushing | 0:22:31 - The Duchess rushes after the Duke | agitated | arguing | distressed | duchess | duke | establish character | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | rising | room | rushing |
| 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 |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Gangster (Elevator Music) | 0:42:40 - Elevator goes up | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | elevator | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | lawyer | leading man | mickey-mousing | rising | room | tense |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Beaten) | 1:23:35 - Jones helps Marlowe up | advance plot | dazed | leading man | lifting | mickey-mousing | pain | private eye | rising | street |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Rises) | 1:43:19 - Marlowe rises | action scene | criminal | dramatic | hostage | leading lady | leading man | love interest | outside | private eye | rising |
| Crime School (1938) | The Warden (Quasi Mysterioso) | 0:27:46 - Warden approaches Frankie with a whip | chromatic parallelism | develop character | reformatory | rising | standing | teenager | tense | threatening | warden | whip |
Crime School (1938) | Temperature rising | 0:54:53 - Close up of rising temperature gauge | action scene | boiler room | danger | frantic | gang | gauge | heat | mechanical | mickey-mousing | reformatory | rising | teenager | temperature | tense | tone cluster | watching |
Crime School (1938) | Temperature rising 2 | 0:57:12 - The temperature gauge rises | action scene | altered dominant | boiler room | chromatic parallelism | danger | dramatic | gauge | heat | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | rising | teenager | temperature | tense |
Crime School (1938) | Explosion | 0:57:21 - Mark pulls Squirt out of the boiler room | action scene | ascending | boiler room | destruction | dissonant bass | dramatic | exploding | explosion | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | rising | stairs | teenager | tense | tone cluster |
Crime School (1938) | Mark Saves Boy | 0:57:29 - Mark carries Squirt up the stairs | action scene | ascending | authentic cadence | dissonant bass | hero | heroic | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | rising | stairs | teenager | walking |
| Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Detective Rises | 0:05:34 - Detective rises to question Bridget | rising | transition |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Lane (Lonely) | 1:21:12 - Lane in her room | advance plot | leading lady | lonely | mickey-mousing | pondering | rising | room | somber | waiting |
| The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Burning Poster) + Blood Money | 0:32:03 - Gypo in rebel headquarters | advance plot | antagonist | burning | combination of themes | diminished 7th chord | fire | headquarters | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | octatonic | rebel | rising | room | Scotch snap | tense | tone cluster |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Wally stands up and walks | 0:10:21 - Wally stands up to go to the phone | action scene | friend | mickey-mousing | rising | room | standing | tense | up | victim | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred stands and walks to window | 1:38:02 - Mildred stands up and goes to the window | advance plot | delicate | graceful | heroine | leading lady | mickey-mousing | peaceful | rising | room | standing | up | walking |
