| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | All Hallows' Eve | 1:23:22 - A forest scene at night | child | conversing | create suspense | forest | governess | Halloween | hiding | leading lady | ombra topic | on-screen text | scaring | scary | spooky | walking |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Spring Time | 1:24:18 - The children laugh | cheerful | child | conversing | create suspense | forest | governess | leading lady | walking |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Loti's Song | 1:24:31 - Apples roasting on a fire | child | cooking | create suspense | forest | governess | leading lady | old man | scary | scored source music | singer | singing | spooky |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Creeping | 1:25:02 - A stranger approaches | child | create suspense | creeping | duke | forest | governess | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | scary | sneaking | spooky |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Fur Store | 0:44:20 - Truck arrives at the United Fur Co. | chromatic parallelism | darkness | half-diminished 7th chord | mysterious | pedal tone | store | street | suspenseful | transition | truck |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Night Watchman | 0:44:29 - Watchman arrives at the store | darkness | dissonant bass | flashlight | guard | half-diminished 7th chord | keys | mysterious | opening | robbery | store | suspenseful | walking | working |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Walking | 0:44:39 - The watchman walks | augmented sixth chord | darkness | flashlight | guard | half-diminished 7th chord | mickey-mousing | mysterious | robbery | store | suspenseful | walking | working |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Turning on light | 0:44:51 - The watchman turns on a light | augmented sixth chord | guard | lamp | light | light | mickey-mousing | mysterious | robbery | store | suspenseful | turning on |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Night Watchman (Light and Shadow) | 0:44:51 - The watchman goes about his work | augmented sixth chord | criminal | flashlight | gangster | guard | mysterious | robbery | shadow | store | suspenseful | walking | working |
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:01:21 - They take Elaine into the cellar | 9th chord | aunt | bride | brother | chromatic scale | conflict | crazy person | darkness | diminished 7th chord | doctor | dramatic | fear | fighting | gagging | harmonic sequence | leading lady | leading man | metric dissonance | murderer | oscillation | room | running | self-borrowing | struggling | suspenseful | underscoring |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Jones (Suspenseful) | 1:35:47 - Marlowe talks to two thugs | conflict | criminal | dark | investigating | leading man | lying | murderer | mysterious | private eye | shop | suspenseful |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Fugitive (Hiding) | 1:02:31 - Detective buys tickets to Johnnie's match | advance plot | detective | hiding | leading man | pedal tone | room | suspenseful | tense |
| Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Clementi A | 1:50:59 - Mr. O'Hara enters Clementi's office | danger | flashback | suspense |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Clementi C | 1:51:13 - Mr. O'Hara pulls a gun on Clementi | danger | flashback | gun | suspense |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Fleeing | 0:34:56 - Joe and Mabel flee | alley | chromatic scale | danger | down | escape | fearful | fleeing | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | mickey-mousing | police | runaway | running | street | suspenseful |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Worried) | 0:46:02 - Mabel talks to the police | 11th chord | create suspense | leading lady | police | room | somber |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Whistling (Suspenseful) | 0:46:25 - Mabel looks out the window | anxious | cheerful | concerned | create suspense | harmonic sequence | leading lady | leading man | on-screen music | police | polytonality | room | scored source music | source music | whistling |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:46:42 - Mabel yells to Joe | chromatic scale | create suspense | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | dramatic | escaping | gun | gunshot | leading lady | leading man | police | room | runaway | running | street | underscoring | yelling |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Joe runs and falls | 0:46:50 - Joe runs and falls | chromatic scale | create suspense | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | dramatic | falling | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | police | runaway | running | stinger | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:46:58 - Nick working | create suspense | dark | dissonant bass | friend | police | room | shopkeeper | street | underscoring |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Hiding) | 0:47:35 - Nick talks with Joe | 42 chord | advance plot | anxious | diminished 7th chord | diner | fragmentation | friend | hiding | leading man | money | runaway | shopkeeper | suspense |
| The FBI Story (1959) | Waving Goodbye | 0:02:20 - Son waves goodbye to his mother on the plane | airport | departure | menacing | murder | plane | suspense |
The FBI Story (1959) | Time Bomb 1 | 0:02:31 - Plane takes off and flies through the air | bomb | machine | menacing | murder | plane | suspense | ticking | time bomb |
The FBI Story (1959) | Time Bomb 2 | 1:57:00 - Men wait for bomb to explode | bomb | flashback | machine | mickey-mousing | suspense | ticking | time bomb |
The FBI Story (1959) | Time Bomb 3 | 1:59:10 - Mario sets two time bombs then climbs uphill out of the way | bomb | climbing | flashback | hero | machine | mickey-mousing | suspense | ticking | time bomb | uphill |
| Illegal (1955) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:07:17 - Ray threatens Ellen | stinger | suspense | tense | underscoring |
| The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Tense) | 0:34:20 - Howard tells Leslie about the letter | 9th chord | altered dominant | chromatic parallelism | conversing | lawyer | leading lady | letter | pivotal scene | prison | sequence | suspenseful | tense |
| Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:44:51 - Trev questions Shelly about her belief in him | hero | heroine | suspense | tense | underscoring |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly (Leaving) | 1:19:41 - Trev sees Shelly drive away | concerned | danger | suspense |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Menace | 1:19:48 - Trev calls Harvey | suspense | telephone |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Menace (String) | 1:21:41 - String and Liza talk | concerned | danger | suspense | thematic transferrence |
| 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 |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Stinger | 0:52:10 - Chris reacts | advance plot | leading lady | shop | shopkeeper | stinger | surprise | suspenseful | zoom in |
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