| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Motor (Butch) | 0:50:45 - Butch searches for the doctor | anxious | chromatic scale | criminal | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | motor | ostinato | pedal tone | robbery | running | searching | store | tense | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Butch runs | 0:50:46 - Butch runs to the window | anxious | criminal | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | robbery | running | searching | sequence | store | tense | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Butch runs back | 0:50:52 - Butch runs back from the window | anxious | chromatic scale | criminal | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | robbery | running | searching | store | tense | thief |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:24:05 - Marlowe advances | investigating | investigation scene | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | private eye | room | searching |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | NIF - not in film | deleted scene | deleted scene | investigating | investigation | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | private eye | room | searching | underscoring |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Turns light on | NIF - not in film | deleted scene | deleted scene | investigating | investigation | leading man | light | light switch | mickey-mousing | mysterious | private eye | room | searching | turning on |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Turns light on | NIF - not in film | deleted scene | deleted scene | investigating | investigation | leading man | light | light switch | mickey-mousing | mysterious | private eye | room | searching | turning on |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Water running | NIF - not in film | deleted scene | deleted scene | faucet | flowing | investigating | investigation | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | private eye | room | searching | water |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Walking | NIF - not in film | deleted scene | deleted scene | investigating | investigation | leading man | mysterious | private eye | room | searching | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Tense) | NIF - not in film | deleted scene | deleted scene | investigating | investigation | leading man | mysterious | private eye | room | searching | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Carmen (Clues) | NIF - not in film | clue | deleted scene | deleted scene | investigating | investigation | key | leading man | mysterious | private eye | room | searching | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Walking | NIF - not in film | deleted scene | deleted scene | investigating | investigation | leading man | mysterious | private eye | room | searching | tense | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Investigating) | NIF - not in film | deleted scene | deleted scene | dramatic | investigating | investigation | leading man | private eye | room | searching | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | NIF - not in film | deleted scene | deleted scene | dramatic | investigating | investigation | leading man | private eye | room | searching | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:24:09 - Marlowe searches for clues | investigating | investigation scene | leading man | mysterious | private eye | room | searching | secret code |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Turning page | 0:24:20 - Marlowe turns the page in the code book | clue | investigating | investigation scene | leading man | mysterious | private eye | room | searching | secret code | turning |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Carmen (Foreboding) | 0:24:22 - Marlowe sees the name Sternwood in a code book | clue | foreboding | investigating | investigation scene | leading man | name on screen | private eye | room | searching | secret code |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Risoluto) | 0:24:39 - Marlowe searches for clues | investigating | investigation scene | leading man | private eye | resolved | room | searching |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:24:57 - Dead body on the floor | corpse | death | dramatic | femme fatale | investigating | investigation scene | leading man | private eye | room | searching | stinger | tense | underscoring |
| His Greatest Gamble (1934) | Nocturne in E-flat Major | 0:36:29 - Philip looks for Alice | advance plot | calm | conversing | daughter | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | mansion | nocturne | pleasant | searching | source music | wandering |
| Crime School (1938) | The Warden (Risoluto) | 0:29:03 - Warden looks for Frankie | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | escape | looking | reformatory | searching | tense | warden |
| Deep Valley (1947) | Libby 2 (Misterioso) | 0:37:32 - Cliff looks for Libby | advance plot | calling | father | mysterious | room | searching | tense |
Deep Valley (1947) | Libby 3 (Dolce) | 0:37:47 - Cliff looks for Libby | advance plot | father | room | searching | tender |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:40:24 - Barry in the woods | advance plot | convict | forest | fugitive | leading man | searching | tense | underscoring |
Deep Valley (1947) | Woods | 0:40:58 - Libby swimming | advance plot | cheerful | convict | dog | forest | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | searching | swimming | upbeat |
Deep Valley (1947) | Woods (Misterioso) | 0:41:27 - Barry goes to the cabin | advance plot | convict | forest | fugitive | leading man | mysterious | searching |
Deep Valley (1947) | Barry (Dark) | 0:41:38 - Barry explores the cabin | advance plot | cabin | convict | fugitive | leading man | mysterious | searching | tense |
Deep Valley (1947) | Law (Molto Misterioso) | 0:57:01 - Men hunting for Barry | forest | manhunt | mysterious | police | searching | tense | transition |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:02:02 - Libby in her room | advance plot | arriving | dramatic | father | leading lady | police | room | searching | street | tense | underscoring | watching |
Deep Valley (1947) | Law (Misterioso) | 1:02:41 - Libby looks out the window | advance plot | father | leading lady | manhunt | mysterious | police | room | searching | street | tense |
Deep Valley (1947) | Law (Slowly) | 1:06:18 - Lawmen advance | action scene | convict | forest | fugitive | leading man | love interest | manhunt | police | searching | serious | walking |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:10:50 - Libby looks out the window | convict | escape | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | looking | love interest | room | searching | tense | underscoring | yard |
Deep Valley (1947) | Barry (Misterioso) | 1:27:15 - Libby talks to Barry | agitated | barn | conflict | convict | dark | father | fugitive | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mysterious | searching | worrying |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:37:57 - Jeff gets up and looks around | car | climax | climbing | convict | dramatic | fleeing | fugitive | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | police | searching | street | transcribed by ear | underscoring |
Deep Valley (1947) | Law (Searching) | 1:39:05 - The posse closes in on Barry | chasing | climax | convict | dramatic | forest | fugitive | hiding | injury | leading man | love interest | police | searching |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:39:09 - Barry hides | climax | convict | forest | fugitive | hiding | injury | leading man | love interest | police | searching | tense | underscoring |
Deep Valley (1947) | Law (Subtle) | 1:39:20 - The posse searches for Barry | climax | convict | forest | fugitive | hiding | injury | leading man | love interest | police | searching | tense |
Deep Valley (1947) | Law | 1:39:28 - Barry crawls on the ground | climax | convict | forest | fugitive | hiding | injury | leading man | love interest | police | searching | tense |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:40:00 - Barry hides | climax | convict | forest | fugitive | hiding | injury | leading man | love interest | mysterious | police | searching | tense |
Deep Valley (1947) | Law (Misterioso) | 1:40:10 - Barry hides | climax | convict | forest | fugitive | hiding | injury | leading man | love interest | mysterious | searching | tense |
Deep Valley (1947) | Barry (Appassionato) | 1:41:02 - Libby arrives at the cabin | cabin | calling | death scene | leading lady | passionate | resolution | searching |
Deep Valley (1947) | Molto Expressivo | 1:41:09 - Libby looks for Barry | calling | death scene | forest | leading lady | passionate | resolution | searching |
Deep Valley (1947) | Barry (Dolce) | 1:41:24 - Libby finds Barry | convict | death scene | finding | forest | fugitive | gentle | leading lady | leading man | love interest | resolution | searching |
| Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Dramatic [Deutsch]) | 1:04:46 - Montage of policemen | action scene | double exposure | dramatic | montage | police | searching | street | underscoring |
| The Informer (1935) | The Informer | 0:00:14 - Shadows move across the screen behind the cast list | cast list | Dorian mode | folk-like | informer | marching | minor pentatonic | mysterious | opening title sequence | Scotch snap | searching | serious | shadow | soldier | street | title of film |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Bridge) | 0:00:46 - Shadows move across the screen behind the cast list | 9th chord | cast list | informer | march | marching | mysterious | Neapolitan | opening title sequence | Scotch snap | searching | serious | shadow | soldier | street |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Dublin) | 0:01:03 - Title card establishes the setting in Dublin, Ireland | 9th chord | 11th chord | establish setting | informer | marching | minor pentatonic | mysterious | nun | opening title sequence | religious symbolism | Scotch snap | searching | serious | shadow | street | title card | tritone substitution |
| Key Largo (1948) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:15:37 - Sheriff approaches Indians | conflict | dock | Indian | searching | sheriff | tense | underscoring |
| Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Mournful | 0:35:50 - Priest hears a dog whimpering | body | death | dog | flashback | leading man | priest | ranch | sad | searching | somber | suspect | whimpering |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Searching | 0:40:06 - Shelly looks for Trev | actor | advance plot | agitated | leading lady | rancher | searching | street | walking |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:08:53 - Wally looks for Mildred | 9th chord | action scene | ascending | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | down | dramatic | falling | friend | half-diminished 7th chord | hurrying | knocking | mickey-mousing | room | searching | setup | suspenseful | underscoring | walking | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Opens coat | 0:11:12 - Policeman opens Wally's coat to frisk him | action scene | beach | dramatic | friend | mickey-mousing | opening | police | searching | victim |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:11:13 - Policemen investigate the scene | action scene | altered dominant | beach | conversing | dissonant bass | friend | mysterious | police | searching | sequence | tense | underscoring | victim |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Desperate) | 0:34:05 - Mildred looks for a job | applying | depressed | enharmonic reinterpretation | foreign key modulation | heroine | leading lady | montage | searching | street | voice-over | walking |
| White Heat (1949) | Con Moto | 0:17:09 - Cody gets out of his car | conflict | dramatic | gangster | leading man | murderer | opening | rushing | searching | street | tense |
White Heat (1949) | Pursuit (Antenna) | 1:37:17 - Policemen follow radio signal in their car | agent | antenna | car | car | chase scene | electronic effect | pursuing | radio | radio effect | searching | speeding | street | tense |
White Heat (1949) | White Heat (Police Raid) | 1:47:47 - Police advance on the gangsters | action scene | advancing | agent | death | dramatic | dying | factory | falling | fugitive | gangster | gun | gunshot | hidiging | leading man | mickey-mousing | murder | murderer | police | raid | searching | shooting | shootout | tense |
| The Woman in White (1948) | Fosco | 1:12:05 - Fosco talks to the maid | agitated | anger | antagonist | conflict | criminal | doctor | headache | husband | illness | leading lady | leading man | pain | room | searching | servant | tense | victim | walking |
The Woman in White (1948) | Fosco (Molto Agitato) | 1:12:15 - Fosco walks | agitated | anger | antagonist | conflict | criminal | dark | doctor | headache | husband | illness | leading lady | leading man | pain | room | rushing | searching | servant | tense | victim | walking |
The Woman in White (1948) | Ann (Accelerando) | 1:12:32 - Fosco looks in the closet | agitated | anger | antagonist | conflict | criminal | leading man | mysterious | room | rushing | searching | walking |
The Woman in White (1948) | Ann (Accelerando) + Fosco (Dark) | 1:12:47 - Fosco leaves | agitated | anger | antagonist | combination of themes | conflict | conversing | criminal | departing | doctor | husband | leading man | room | rushing | searching | tense | walking |
| Is My Face Red? (1932) | Sailing of the Olympic | 0:15:16 - William on the deck of a busy ship | AB structure | advance plot | boat | bustling | chromatic sequence | crowd | hurried | leading man | metric dissonance | parallelism | searching | transcribed by ear |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Strolling the Deck (Argument) | 0:16:14 - Camera moves from one window to another | advance plot | boat | cheerful | eavesdropping | fragmentation | leading man | parallelism | searching | transcribed by ear |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Strolling the Deck | 0:16:29 - Camera moves from one window to another | advance plot | boat | cheerful | common-tone diminished 7th | eavesdropping | leading man | mode mixture | searching | transcribed by ear |
| Without Honor (1949) | Desperation (The Scream) | 0:53:50 - They look at the bloody handprint | antagonist | blood | brother | climax | confession | departing | dramatic | handprint | husband | investigating | leading lady | leading man | room | screaming | searching | tense | wife | yard |
Without Honor (1949) | Appassionato 2 (Agitato) | 0:54:14 - Jane exits the house | climax | leading lady | searching | tense | wandering | yard |
Without Honor (1949) | Appassionato (Broad) | 0:54:27 - Bill talks on the phone | antagonist | brother | calling | climax | leading lady | leading man | room | searching | telephone | tense | wandering | yard |
Without Honor (1949) | Desperation | 0:54:35 - The orchard | climax | leading lady | orchard | searching | tense |
Without Honor (1949) | Twilight (Bloody Hand) | 0:54:40 - Jane looks around the orchard | climax | leading lady | orchard | searching | tense |
Without Honor (1949) | Twilight (Molto Expressivo) | 0:54:55 - Jane is startled | climax | leading lady | orchard | searching | tense |
| The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Russian Waltz (Adagio) + The Iron Door | 0:31:06 - Bob and Eve descend the stairs | candle | castle | dark | descending | leading lady | leading man | ominous | searching | sneaking | turning point | walking |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Zaroff (Sneaking) | 0:31:29 - Bob and Eve look around | candle | castle | descending | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | searching | sneaking | turning point | walking |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Zaroff (Allegro con Fuoco) | 0:53:24 - Zaroff looks up at the tree | agitated | barking | chase scene | chasing | count | dark | dog | jungle | running | searching | servant | tense | tree | villain |
| White Heat (1949) | Rushing + Agents | 1:49:44 - Police advance | action scene | advancing | agent | combination of themes | factory | fugitive | gangster | hiding | leading man | murderer | police | raid | rushing | searching | tense |
White Heat (1949) | White Heat (Maestoso 2) | 1:49:55 - Police advance | action scene | advancing | agent | dramatic | factory | fugitive | gangster | hiding | leading man | murderer | police | raid | rushing | searching | tense |
White Heat (1949) | Agents (Searching) | 1:50:02 - Agents plan their next move | action scene | advancing | agent | dramatic | factory | fugitive | gangster | hiding | leading man | murderer | police | raid | rushing | searching | tense |
White Heat (1949) | Rushing (Searchlights) | 1:50:05 - Searchlights | action scene | agent | factory | fugitive | gangster | hiding | laughing | leading man | mickey-mousing | murderer | police | raid | searching | searchlight | tense |
White Heat (1949) | Rushing (Searchlights 2) | 1:50:48 - Searchlights | action scene | agent | announcing | death | factory | fugitive | gangster | gun | gunshot | hiding | killing | laughing | leading man | mickey-mousing | murder | murderer | police | raid | searching | searchlight | shooting | surrendering | tense |
White Heat (1949) | Trap | 1:51:37 - Policeman hands Hank a rifle | action scene | agent | aiming | factory | fugitive | gangster | gun | leading man | murderer | police | raid | searching | tense |
White Heat (1949) | Rushing | 1:51:44 - Searchlights | action scene | agent | aiming | factory | fugitive | gangster | gun | gunshot | hiding | leading man | mickey-mousing | murderer | police | raid | searching | searchlight | shooting | tense |
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