| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Sanctus (Mysterioso) | 1:05:33 - Jerry looks at note from Rocky | advance plot | charity | classical music | common-chord modulation | friendship | leading man | letter | mode mixture | money | mysterious | pedal tone | priest | room | sacred | source to score | thinking |
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Jonathan | 0:23:14 - Mortimer reacts to the reveal | calling | conversing | dialing | groom | leading man | ominous | reveal | room | sinister | stinger | telephone effect | thinking | turning point |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Augmented) | 0:23:56 - Marlowe investigates the crime scene | investigating | investigation scene | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | private eye | room | snapping | thinking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Thinking) | 0:24:26 - Marlowe tries to solve the mystery | clue | investigating | investigation scene | leading man | mysterious | private eye | room | secret code | thinking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Ear Music) | 0:46:52 - Marlowe thinks | advance plot | leading man | mysterious | private eye | room | tense | thinking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Ear Business) | 0:59:42 - Marlowe pulls on his ear | corpse | investigating | investigation scene | leading man | mysterious | private eye | room | thinking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Vivian + Marlowe (Ear Business) | NIF - not in film | advance plot | combination of themes | conversing | cut from film | deleted scene | deleted scene | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mysterious | private eye | romantic | room | thinking |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Thinking) | 1:20:49 - Marlowe sits in a diner | advance plot | cafe | leading man | mysterious | private eye | tense | thinking |
| Crime School (1938) | Sue (Mysterious) | 1:07:09 - Spike talks to Frankie about his sister | advance plot | arguing | mysterious | reformatory | teenager | thinking | worrying |
Crime School (1938) | Sue (Troubled) | 1:07:37 - Frankie is troubled about his sister | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | conversing | gang | reformatory | teenager | thinking | troubled | worried |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Fugitive (Triste) | 0:23:12 - Johnnie at a diner | 9th chord | advance plot | diner | leading man | money | somber | thinking | underscoring |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Arena | 1:01:22 - A fight poster | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | dark | detective | fanfare | leading man | light | polytonality | poster | street | thinking |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Fugitive (Going Away) | 1:07:38 - Tommy talks to Johnnie | conflict | leading man | lonely | packing | room | somber | teenager | thinking |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | On the Make (Lohenblueish) | 1:09:07 - Johnnie decides that he will stay | added-note chord | augmentation | chromatic mediant | direct modulation | foreign key modulation | hero | hopeful | hopeless | leading man | linear chromaticism | passionate | room | thinking | turning point | zoom in |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Fugitive (Religioso) | 1:09:41 - Johnnie looks at a picture | 9th chord | hero | leading man | Neapolitan | room | tender | thinking | turning point |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Inspiration | 1:09:53 - Johnnie has an inspiration | boxing | foreign key modulation | gentle | hero | idea | inspiration | leading man | pedal tone | pump-up modulation | room | shadow | thinking | turning point |
| Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Realization | 0:24:24 - Bridget realizes that Clementi stole the stolen wallet from her | flashback | mickey-mousing | thinking |
| Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Menace | 0:58:13 - Bessie prepares to leave | chase scene | conductor score | floozy | mysterious | preparing | room | tense | thinking |
| I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Family | 0:38:00 - Matt enters his home | sentimental | thinking |
| In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Slowly) | 1:16:07 - Craig reads a note | conflict | lawyer | leading man | note | office | sentimental | thinking |
| The Informer (1935) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:02:23 - Gypo stares at the poster, thinking | 64 chord | establish character | leading man | muttering | mysterious | street | thinking | underscoring |
The Informer (1935) | The Wearin’ o’ the Green | 0:07:32 - Frankie looks at reward poster with his picture on it | 64 chord | dark | establish character | folk song | hero | Irish | marching | mickey-mousing | mysterious | source music | street | thinking |
The Informer (1935) | Blood Money (Worrying) | 0:21:57 - Gypo worries about what he has done | advance plot | antagonist | augmented triad | drinking | hearing voices | leading man | mysterious | planning | pub | tense | thinking | tritone | whole-tone | worrying |
| Key Largo (1948) | Moanin’ Low (Triste) | 1:38:30 - Gaye leaves | familiar tune | father | hotel | leading lady | moll | resolution | somber | thinking | waiting |
Key Largo (1948) | McCloud (Tenderly) | 1:39:12 - Nora tells her father the good news | father | hopeful | hoping | hotel | leading lady | light | opening | relieved | resolution | sunlight | thinking | window |
| The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Mysterioso) | 0:30:04 - Howard in his office | advance plot | lawyer | mysterious | office | pc set | quartal chord | tense | thinking |
The Letter (1940) | Hammond B (Screwyoso) | 0:30:23 - Howard grabs the letter | advance plot | lawyer | letter | mysterious | office | sequence | tense | thinking |
The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Ominous) | 0:51:41 - Leslie and Howard sitting in the room | advance plot | call and response | home | lawyer | leading lady | ominous | thinking |
The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Foxtrot No.3) | 1:25:08 - Leslie leaves the party, stares at the moon, and is worried | climax | combination of themes | dance music | foxtrot | home | lacework | leading lady | obsession | obsessive | oscillation | sequence | source music | tense | thinking |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Bert (Sentimentale) | 0:48:03 - Mildred watches her children leave | heroine | husband | leading lady | leaving | room | serious | somber | thinking | transition |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Ominous) | 1:09:06 - Larry and Chris talk on the phone | advance plot | lawyer | leading lady | monophonic | office | phone call | room | tense | thinking |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Dark) | 0:39:33 - Leni thinks to herself | 9th chord | antagonist | classical music | conflict | dark | familiar tune | garden | Haydn | heroine | quotation | suspension | thinking |
| Gridiron Flash (1934) | Dunlap Commandery | 0:43:59 - Eddie in his room | advance plot | cheering | leading man | march | room | thinking | upbeat |
