| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Rocks (Double Cross) | 0:48:56 - Rocks thinks of a double-cross | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | criminal | diminished 7th chord | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | leading man | murderer | murdering | plotting | robbery | sinister | store | thief | trapping |
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Transition | 0:00:29 - Cast list | cast list | common-chord modulation | dissonant bass | ominous | opening title sequence | sinister | tritone |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Jonathan | 0:18:54 - Jonathan Brewster's picture is shown | advance plot | aunt | conversing | diminished 7th chord | groom | leading lady | leading man | ominous | pc set | picture | room | sinister | stinger |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Jonathan | 0:23:14 - Mortimer reacts to the reveal | calling | conversing | dialing | diminished 7th chord | groom | leading man | ominous | pc set | quartal chord | reveal | room | sinister | stinger | telephone effect | thinking | turning point |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Jonathan 2 | 0:58:55 - Jonathan emerges from the shadows | advance plot | bride | brother | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | conversing | crazy person | darkness | dissonant bass | doctor | fear | leading lady | leading man | murderer | pc set | questioning | room | sinister |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Sternwood (Threatening) | 0:51:52 - Carmen enters holding a gun on Brody | blackmailer | blue note | conflict | criminal | dark | dissonant bass | femme fatale | gun | leading lady | leading man | private eye | room | sinister | stinger | suspect | threatening | whole-tone chord |
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 | whole-tone chord |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Angry) | 0:45:24 - Titus sees Lane | advance plot | anger | angry | club | dark | leading lady | noticing | ominous | politician | retrograde | self-borrowing | sheriff | sinister | waitress |
| Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Menace | 0:53:06 - Steve talks with Dan | advance plot | conductor score | conversing | dark | gangster | investigator | leading man | sinister | street |
| Illegal (1955) | Victim | 0:00:25 - Woman (Gloria) brushes her hair then realizes a man is there who then shoots her | gun | gunshot | murder | sinister |
Illegal (1955) | Frank Garland (Maestoso) | 0:46:33 - Crowd runs to help shot man and murderer smiles and walks away with hidden gun | gun | gunshot | murder | sinister |
| Key Largo (1948) | Rocco | 0:25:46 - Rocco in the bathtub | bathing | boss | establish character | gangster | hotel | menacing | sinister | tremolo |
Key Largo (1948) | Tension | 0:26:48 - Rocco slaps bleeding man | boss | establish character | gangster | hostage | hotel | menacing | police | sinister | slapping | violence |
Key Largo (1948) | Rocco Pacing | 1:02:01 - Rocco paces back and forth | boss | develop character | father | gangster | hostage | hotel | leading lady | leading man | moll | nervous | ominous | pacing | sinister | walking |
| The Letter (1940) | Andante Doloroso + Leslie | 0:15:53 - Men go to look at dead body | advance plot | combination of themes | dark | death | murder | parallelism | plantation | reveal | servant | sinister | walking |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Dark) | 0:16:09 - Men look at dead body | advance plot | augmented major 7th chord | changing meter | chromatic parallelism | creeping | dark | death | dissonant bass | investigating | murder | pc set | plantation | servant | shadow | sinister |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Sly) | 1:13:55 - Mildred tells Monte to not see Veda | arguing | breakup | chromatic wedge | chromatic wedge | conflict | disagreement | heroine | leading lady | love interest | ominous | room | sinister | tense | whole-tone chord |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Troubled) | 1:14:06 - Mildred and Monte argue | arguing | breakup | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | conflict | disagreement | fragmentation | heroine | leading lady | love interest | ominous | room | sinister | tense | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Danger | 0:08:19 - A man in the shadows | advance plot | antagonist | danger | fear | house | leading lady | monophonic | shadow | sinister | walking |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Attack) | 0:08:40 - The man attacks Chris | advance plot | antagonist | attacking | chromatic scale | criminal | danger | fighting | house | leading lady | ostinato | pc set | sequence | shadow | sinister | victim | whole-tone |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Chris screams | 0:08:53 - Chris screams | advance plot | antagonist | criminal | danger | house | leading lady | mickey-mousing | pc set | screaming | shadow | sinister | victim |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Plotting) | 0:42:32 - Larry storms out of the art collector's shop | advance plot | antagonist | dissonant bass | door | plotting | shop | sinister | slamming |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Ominous) | 0:43:39 - Secretary makes a call | advance plot | dialing | law office | lawyer | monophonic | office | ominous | phone call | sinister | spinning |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Drifting) | 0:38:09 - Jessica tells Leni to leave | altered dominant | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | conflict | conversing | familiar tune | folk song | gentle | German | heroine | home | quotation | sinister | tense | whole-tone chord |
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