The Big Sleep (1946)


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Theme
Theme name: Marlowe
Description: Marlowe's "trickster" theme
Borrowed from: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
Related characters: Philip Marlowe
Total uses: 59
Total duration: 13:16:54
% of music: 55.36%
Total combinations: 3
Combinations: Down the Stairs + The Chase + Marlowe
Hostage + Marlowe
Vivian + Marlowe
Total variants: 36
Variants:

[A-Z]
[Film order]
0:02:01 - Original
0:02:12 - Sly
0:13:20 - Molto Misterioso
0:13:46 - Grazioso
0:19:05 - Agitato
0:19:40 - Misterioso
0:20:17 - Molto Misterioso
0:21:28 - Heroic
0:23:56 - Augmented
NIF - Investigating
0:24:26 - Thinking
0:24:39 - Risoluto
0:25:05 - Molto Misterioso
0:25:28 - Grazioso
0:27:44 - Misterioso
0:28:16 - Sneaking
0:28:47 - Major
NIF - Melancholy
0:32:29 - Grazioso
0:38:26 - Ear Music
0:39:05 - Taxi
0:46:52 - Ear Music
0:47:04 - Decisive
0:47:56 - Determined
0:48:55 - Augmented
0:57:01 - Action
0:58:24 - Sinister
0:59:14 - Misterioso
0:59:42 - Ear Business
NIF - Phone Call
NIF - Not in Film
NIF - Major
1:20:49 - Thinking
1:21:42 - Mysterious Organ
1:22:38 - Investigating
1:23:35 - Beaten
1:23:48 - Dazed
1:24:25 - Sostenuto
1:30:12 - Risoluto
1:31:23 - Molto Misterioso
1:33:37 - Dramatic
1:36:04 - Ear Music
1:36:20 - Gets Hit
1:39:25 - Whole Tone
1:39:39 - Phone Call
1:41:01 - Misterioso
1:41:50 - Hiding
1:42:07 - Shoots
1:42:20 - Echo
1:43:48 - Escaping
1:45:44 - Bold
1:47:26 - Misterioso
1:48:32 - Danger
1:48:55 - Misterioso
1:52:01 - Risoluto
1:53:36 - The End






Tags associated with this theme:

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