| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Locked in vault | 0:49:06 - Dr. Clitterhouse locked in safe | anxious | criminal | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | leading man | murderer | murdering | panicking | pounding | robbery | safe | store | tense | thief | trapping | vault | yelling |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Motor | 0:49:21 - Rocks starts up the refrigeration motor | antagonist | anxious | criminal | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | gauge | leading man | lowering | machine | mickey-mousing | motor | murderer | murdering | panicking | pounding | robbery | spinning | store | temperature | tense | thief | trapping | whirling | yelling |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Motor (Getting Colder) | 0:49:43 - The vault gets colder | anxious | criminal | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | gauge | leading man | lowering | machine | motor | murderer | murdering | panicking | pounding | robbery | spinning | store | temperature | tense | thief | trapping | whirling | yelling |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:23:10 - Jerry and Rocky confront one another | agitated | arguing | building | conflict | dramatic | entering | gangster | leading man | priest | underscoring | yelling |
| Crime School (1938) | Gangster Blues (Explosion) | 0:56:04 - The boiler explodes | action scene | boiler room | collapsing | escaping | exploding | explosion | frantic | gang | mechanical | reformatory | running | teenager | tense | worker | yelling |
Crime School (1938) | Fireman | 0:56:46 - Boiler room worker orders kids back | action scene | fanfare | gang | heroic | protecting | reformatory | rushing | teenager | worker | yelling |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:46:42 - Mabel yells out the window to warn Joe; the police shoot at Joe as he runs away | city | create suspense | dramatic | escaping | gun | gunshot | hero | heroine | home | running | shopkeeper | underscoring | yelling |
| Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Confusion | 0:05:43 - Frank sits confused in car after crash | accusing | car | car crash | conflict | confused | crowd | fire | glass | hero | injury | leading man | reporter | running | street | yelling |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:06:06 - Crowd accuses Frank of murder | accusing | car crash | conflict | crowd | dramatic | hero | injury | leading man | policeman | reporter | shaking | street | underscoring | yelling |
| The Informer (1935) | The Irish Washerwoman (Pub) + Blood Money + The Wearin’ o’ the Green + The Informer | 0:44:52 - People celebrate in the pub | advance plot | antagonist | bar | chaotic | chromatic scale | close-up | combination of themes | crowd | dark | excited | familiar tune | folk song | foreign key modulation | happy | heroic | Irish | layering | leading man | mob | mobbing | octatonic | parallelism | pedal tone | polytonality | rebel | serving | source to score | spying | tense | whole-tone | yelling | zoom in |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred B (Angry) | 1:23:38 - Mildred tears up Veda's check | angry | antagonist | arguing | check | conflict | daughter | fighting | heroine | leading lady | room | slapping | tearing | tense | violence | yelling |
| Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Menace | 0:19:43 - Amato talks to old man | antagonist | conductor score | dark | establish character | gangster | office | yelling |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:51:36 - Amato yells at Steve | action scene | angry | arguing | conductor score | fighting | gangster | investigator | leading man | room | underscoring | violence | yelling |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Amato | 1:32:23 - Amato shoots Lye | action scene | brash | gangster | gun | gunshot | leading man | murder | murdering | room | shooting | tense | violence | yelling |
