| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Ascending | 1:03:57 - The Duke and Duchess ascend | ascending | ballroom | double exposure | duchess | duke | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | stairs | tense |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Appassionato 2) | 1:46:00 - Henriette descends the staircase | anxious | descending | excited | hurrying | leading lady | not mickey-moused | room | stairs | transition | walking |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Sneaking | 0:45:13 - Criminals steal furs | ascending | carrying | chromatic parallelism | crime | criminal | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | gangster | pedal tone | robbery | sneaking | sneaky | stairs | stealing | store | thief | walking |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:45:26 - Criminals on the rooftop | 42 chord | carrying | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | crime | criminal | dissonant bass | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | mysterious | robbery | rooftop | sneaking | sneaky | stairs | stealing | thief | tossing | underscoring | walking | whole-tone |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Rocks goes downstairs | 0:50:05 - Rocks goes down the stairs | antagonist | anxious | criminal | descending | diminished 7th chord | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | murderer | robbery | stairs | store | temperature | tense | thief | walking |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Going down stairs | 1:19:05 - Rocky runs down the stairs | agitated | chromatic scale | conflict | down | dramatic | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | mickey-mousing | running | stairs | stairwell |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Going up stairs | 1:19:27 - Rocky runs up the stairs | agitated | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | dissonant bass | dramatic | gangster | leading man | major 7th chord | mickey-mousing | running | sequence | stairs | stairwell | up |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Sanctus (Maestoso) | 1:36:06 - Jerry and the boys walk up the stairs | angelic | ascending | chromatic mediant | foreign key modulation | leading man | priest | resolution | room | stairs | teenager | The End | transcendence | triumphant | up |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Determined) | 0:47:56 - Marlowe enters the apartment building | arriving | ascending | bold | determined | heroic | investigating | investigation scene | leading lady | leading man | private eye | stairs | street | walking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Running out | 0:56:36 - Marlowe runs after the killer | assassin | chase scene | chasing | combination of themes | dramatic | gun | gunshot | leading man | mickey-mousing | murder | murderer | private eye | room | running | stairs | stinger |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Down the Stairs + The Chase + Marlowe (Action) | 0:56:39 - Marlowe chases the killer down the stairs | assassin | chase scene | chasing | descending | dramatic | gun | gunshot | heroic | leading man | murderer | private eye | room | running | stairs | tense |
| Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:08:20 - The kids confront the junk shop owner | attacking | chromatic scale | conflict | death | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | fighting | gang | mickey-mousing | ominous | ostinato | running | shop | shopkeeper | stairs | stinger | teenager | tense | underscoring | up |
Crime School (1938) | Kids running down | 0:56:17 - Kids run down stairs | action scene | chromatic parallelism | down | dramatic | mickey-mousing | polychord | quartal chord | reformatory | running | stairs | teenager |
Crime School (1938) | Going down | 0:57:05 - Mark descends into the boiler room | action scene | descending | dramatic | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | stairs | teenager | 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) | Up the Stairs 1 | 0:00:56 - Bridget walks up the stairs | stairs | tense | up | upstairs |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Jumps down stairs | 0:24:49 - Man jumps down the stairs to chase Clementi | down | flashback | jumping | mickey-mousing | stairs |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Up the Stairs 2 | 1:44:22 - Clementi takes his mother up the stairs to her room | flashback | folk-like | mickey-mousing | stairs | up | upstairs |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Clementi A (Mother) | 1:55:06 - Clementi staggers up the stairs | flashback | mickey-mousing | stairs | up | upstairs |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Running Up and Down) | 0:30:12 - Man runs up the courthouse steps | 64 chord | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | courthouse | down | frantic | leading lady | leading man | love scene | mickey-mousing | mode mixture | producer | running | stairs | street | up |
| The Informer (1935) | Dan and Mary (Descending) | 1:05:08 - Mary enters, looking for Dan | chromatic sequence | courtroom scene | dissonant bass | down | headquarters | hero | love interest | love theme | mickey-mousing | romantic | stairs | street | suspect | walking |
The Informer (1935) | Falling down the stairs | 1:06:19 - Gypo falls down the stairs | 9th chord | antagonist | chromatic scale | courtroom scene | down | dramatic | falling | headquarters | leading man | mickey-mousing | rebel | room | stairs | suspect |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Up the Stairs) | 1:21:35 - Gypo goes up the stairs | 64 chord | agitated | antagonist | chromatic sequence | fragmentation | hallway | hiding | leading man | mickey-mousing | running | sequence | stairs | tense | traitor | transition | up |
| Key Largo (1948) | Expressivo | 0:52:37 - Mr. Temple is helped down the stairs | advance plot | boss | father | gangster | gentle | helping | hostage | hotel | leading lady | leading man | noble | stairs |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Wally goes upstairs | 0:09:28 - Wally ascends the spiral staircase | action scene | ascending | dramatic | friend | mickey-mousing | room | spiral staircase | stairs |
| White Heat (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:19:20 - Big Ed's body falls down the stairs | beans | death | dramatic | rolling | stairs | statue | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Stairs | 1:47:22 - Gangsters climb up the stairs to the roof | dramatic | mickey-mousing | stairs | up |
White Heat (1949) | Tanker 2 (Brash) | 1:48:12 - Agents run up the stairs | agent | brash | stairs | violence |
White Heat (1949) | Agents (Climbing) | 1:48:17 - Gangsters run up the stairs and agent shoots at them | agent | gunshot | rushing | stairs | up |
White Heat (1949) | Falls down stairs | 1:48:21 - Gangster is shot and falls down the stairs | down | falling | gun | gunshot | mickey-mousing | stairs |
White Heat (1949) | Agents (Running) | 1:48:30 - Agents run up the stairs | agent | running | stairs | up |
White Heat (1949) | Cody (Climbing) | 1:50:27 - Cody climbs the stairs | dramatic | gangster | stairs | up |
| Deep Valley (1947) | Drudge | 0:03:59 - Libby goes downstairs | descending | establish character | leading lady | room | somber | stairs | upset | walking |
| Beyond the Forest (1949) | Chicago (She Walks Down) | 1:29:25 - Rosa walks down the stairs | climax | dark | descending | familiar tune | leading lady | madness | mad scene | maid | mickey-mousing | murderer | popular tune | room | solemn | stairs | stumbling |
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