Character: Rocky Sullivan in Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)

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Played by James Cagney

Character Information

Tags associated with this character: leading man, prisoner, gangster, murderer

Theme associated with this character: The Gangster

Tags associated with this theme:

9th chord | 64 chord | bold | building | capturing | chromatic parallelism | common-chord modulation | common-tone diminished 7th | coughing | dark | digging | dramatic | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | half-diminished 7th chord | linear chromaticism | major 7th chord | marching | menacing | mickey-mousing | mysterious | Neapolitan | octatonic scale | pedal tone | polychord | prison | pushing | reformatory | rising | room | sequence | serious | solemn | somber | street | taunting | tense | walking | working | writing

Theme associated with this character: Rocky and Laury

Other characters associated with this theme: Laury Martin

Tags associated with this theme:

added-note chord | altered dominant | arriving | augmented sixth chord | chromatic scale | common-chord modulation | conversing | following | heartbroken | mode mixture | parallel period | romantic | room | rushing | sentimental | shop | street | walking