The Big Sleep (1946)

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Theme
Theme name:	Underscoring (Tense)
Description:	Tense underscoring
Total uses:	15
Total duration:	00:03:29
% of music:	6.27%
Instances:	0:01:01 - Sign for the Sternwood mansion 0:02:45 - Marlowe goes to meet Sternwood 0:18:57 - Geiger enters car NIF - Marlowe investigates 0:28:58 - Marlowe tries to crack the code 0:51:31 - Joe reacts to the doorbell ringing 1:16:43 - Marlowe and Vivian argue NIF - Marlowe and Carmen talk 1:30:01 - Marlowe investigates the crime scene 1:30:24 - Marlowe makes a phone call 1:31:48 - Marlowe talks to Agnes on the phone 1:33:20 - Marlowe backs the car up 1:35:26 - Marlowe talks to two thugs 1:41:55 - Thug looks for Marlowe 1:43:35 - Marlowe gets the keys to the handcuffs

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9th chord | accusing | action scene | advance plot | altered dominant | antagonist | arriving | blackmailer | butler | car | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | conversing | criminal | cut from film | dark | death | death scene | deleted scene | departing | diminished 7th chord | doorbell | driving | dying | escaping | establish character | femme fatale | gun | half-diminished 7th chord | hostage | informer | investigating | investigation | leading lady | leading man | love interest | love scene | lying | mansion | murder | murderer | mysterious | oscillation | outside | pc set | pedal tone | phone call | private eye | rain | researching | room | searching | shop | sneaking | street | suspect | tense | threat | tone cluster | transition | traveling scene | tritone | underscoring | victim | walking | whole-tone | whole-tone chord | writing