Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Home > Film: Arsenic and Old Lace > Theme: Underscoring (Tense)

Theme
Theme name:	Underscoring (Tense)
Description:	Tense underscoring
Total uses:	6
Total duration:	00:02:05
% of music:	5.84%
Instances:	0:42:08 - Jonathan talks to the aunts 0:42:56 - Jonathan glares at Dr. Einstein 0:49:45 - Jonathan follows Dr. Einstein 0:54:30 - Jonathan goes up the stairs 0:58:10 - Someone knocks at the door 1:32:35 - They toast to Mortimer

There are multiple instances of this type of underscoring
(select one of the instances on the left)

Tags associated with this theme:

advance plot | alcohol | altered dominant | aunt | brother | captive | chromatic scale | clinking | conflict | conversing | corpse | crazy person | criminal | darkness | digging | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | doctor | establish character | familiar tune | fear | glass effect | knocking | leading lady | leading man | march | murderer | mysterious | on-screen music | oscillation | parallelism | patriotic tune | pc set | plotting | polychord | room | scar | sequence | sneaking | source and scoring overlap | tense | toasting | tone cluster | underscoring | victim | walking | whistling