The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Rocks (Annoyed) | 0:48:25 - Rocks is annoyed by flashlight | anger | angry | annoyance | criminal | doctor | flashlight | gangster | leading man | ominous | robbery | shining | store | tense | thief | tritone |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:39:58 - Rocky in the drug store | conflict | conversing | gangster | leading man | ominous | setup | shop | telephone | tritone | underscoring |
Caged (1950) | Evelyn | 0:40:19 - Evelyn walks into the cell showing off her new fashion | footsteps | heavy | mickey-mousing | prison | tritone | walking |
The FBI Story (1959) | Communists | 2:07:43 - Overhead view of a truck going to the cleaners | communist | flashback | tritone |
The FBI Story (1959) | Communists (Mysterious) | 2:10:14 - Chip looking at papers at his desk | communist | dropping | flashback | mickey-mousing | mysterious | text painting | tritone |
The FBI Story (1959) | Surveillance 2 | 2:13:13 - FBI agents follow communist | communist | flashback | following | surveillance | tritone |
The FBI Story (1959) | Communists (Surveillance 2) | 2:13:36 - FBI agents follow communist | combination of themes | communist | flashback | tritone |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent | 0:00:21 - Cast list over long, dark hallway | cast list | hallway | main title | march | mickey-mousing | tritone | walking |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent (Marcia) | 0:01:17 - Agent walks to the phone | agent | airport | main title | march | mickey-mousing | telephone | tritone | walking |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent (Discovered) | 0:38:46 - Eve reads Matt's letter | letter | main title | tense | tritone |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent (Sneaking) | 0:57:54 - Matt and Eve see the commie agents | agent | main title | sneaking | tritone |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent (Marcia) | 0:58:12 - The communist agents go upstairs | agent | main title | sneaking | tritone | up | upstairs |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent (Tense) | 0:59:26 - FBI man holds gun on commie agents | FBI | main title | tritone |
Illegal (1955) | Menace | 0:42:19 - Vic sees Andy's gun | gun | hero | menacing | tritone |
Illegal (1955) | Menace | 1:12:47 - Andy pulls gun on Vic and they walk | gun | tritone | walking |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Dublin) | 0:01:03 - Title card establishes the setting in Dublin, Ireland | 9th chord | 11th chord | establish setting | informer | marching | minor pentatonic | mysterious | nun | opening title sequence | religious symbolism | Scotch snap | searching | serious | shadow | street | title card | tritone substitution |
The Informer (1935) | Katie (Hurt) | 0:06:58 - Katie is upset with Gypo and walks away upset | agitated | chromatic scale | crying | establish character | leading lady | leading man | leaving | street | tritone | upset |
The Informer (1935) | Footsteps | 0:07:16 - Close-up on walking feet | establish character | footsteps | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | street | tritone | walking |
The Informer (1935) | Blood Money (Extended) | 0:18:55 - British officer tosses money down on the table | antagonist | augmented triad | grabbing | leading man | money | mysterious | pivotal scene | police | police station | tense | tossing | tritone | whole-tone |
The Informer (1935) | Blood Money (Counting Money) | 0:19:21 - Gypo closes the door | advance plot | antagonist | counting | leading man | money | mysterious | street | tense | tritone |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Drinking) | 0:21:23 - Gypo takes a drink | advance plot | antagonist | bartender | drinking | leading man | mysterious | octatonic | pub | Scotch snap | tense | tritone | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
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 |
The Informer (1935) | Blood Money | 1:00:57 - Rebels see Gypo spending money | advance plot | augmented triad | dark | money | party | rebel | spying | tritone |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Lawyer) | 0:30:45 - Howard speaks with his secretary | advance plot | Chinese | lawyer | leaving | mysterious | office | pc set | tritone |
The Letter (1940) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:36:53 - Howard takes out the letter | deception | denying | lawyer | leading lady | letter | ominous | pivotal scene | prison | tense | tritone |
The Letter (1940) | Hammond A (Confession) | 1:16:36 - Leslie confesses to Robert | confessing | conflict | dark | home | husband | lawyer | leading lady | letter | ostinato | recounting | serious | tritone | tritone |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Hopes Crushed | 1:43:38 - Mildred realizes Monte has left her | dark | heroine | leading lady | lost hope | mickey-mousing | realizing | room | tritone | turning point |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Chris (Dark) | 0:07:46 - Chris walks from her car to her front door | advance plot | antagonist | calm | danger | house | leading lady | ominous | shadow | tritone | tritone | walking |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:25:51 - Art shop owner testifies | climax | courtroom | dramatic | hurrying | montage | prosecuting | rushing | testifying | tritone | underscoring | witness |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Crying) | 0:45:45 - Leni leaves the room crying | advance plot | antagonist | boy | child | crying | familiar tune | folk song | fragmentation | German | heroine | home | leaving | mother | quotation | room | sequence | somber | tritone |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Poison Victim | 1:07:50 - Rocks is poisoned | dissonant | doctor | gangster | leading lady | leading man | murder | murderer | murdering | murder scene | mysterious | office | parallel fifths | poison | poisoning | tense | tone cluster | tritone |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Spring Song | 0:14:56 - Amato talks to Mario | antagonist | conductor score | conversing | dark | establish character | gangster | menacing | office | tritone |
Penguin Pool Murder (1932) | Sea Creatures | 0:01:39 - A shark, an octopus, and a fish | establish setting | fish | mysterious | octopus | shark | swimming | tense | transcribed by ear | tritone | underwater | whole-tone |