| 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 | aunt | bride | brother | conflict | crazy person | darkness | doctor | dramatic | fear | fighting | gagging | leading lady | leading man | murderer | 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 |
| 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 |
| The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Tense) | 0:34:20 - Howard tells Leslie about the letter | conversing | lawyer | leading lady | letter | parallelism | pivotal scene | prison | suspenseful | tense |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:08:53 - Wally looks for Mildred | action scene | ascending | down | dramatic | falling | friend | hurrying | knocking | mickey-mousing | room | searching | setup | suspenseful | underscoring | walking |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Stinger | 0:52:10 - Chris talks to the art shop owner | advance plot | leading lady | shop | shopkeeper | stinger | surprise | suspenseful | zoom in |
