| Description |
| On-screen: |
Marlowe pursues killer in his car |
| Description: |
A five-note descending ostinato pattern repeats as Marlowe stealthily pursues the killer in his car |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 24] ticks out / mf / Simon: very mysterious - screwy tone colors - not too thin!!; [m. 25] enharmon; [m. 33] meno / sfz; [m. 34] a tempo I / mf; [m. 38] pp; [m. 40] sfz |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 24] Car starts; [m. 33] Car stops; [m. 38] L: approaching car; [m. 40] Pulls gun out / Police siren takes music out |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 24] W.W. / 2nd piano? / vibra? / W.W. / 1st harp / (piano) / gong p / Novachord etc / 2nd piano / strings / horns / add harp; [m. 34] timp pp; [m. 36] gong / add ?; [m. 38] add harp / (also tuba + b. trb (felt)) |
| Analysis: |
This syncopated chromatic descending figure is used in other films involving pursuit, such as In This Our Life (1942) |
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| Tags |
assassin | car | chase scene | chasing | chromatic scale | dissonant bass | driving | gun | hiding | leading man | murderer | ostinato | private eye | pursuing | street | syncopation | tense
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