Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)

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Theme
Theme name:	Underscoring (Dramatic)
Description:	Dramatic underscoring
Total uses:	10
Total duration:	04:13:43
% of music:	17.76%
Instances:	NIF - Rocky enters a drug store 0:40:50 - Gangsters shoot their own man in phone booth NIF (Not in Film) 1:09:49 - Jerry talks to newspaper editor 1:16:29 - Rocky shoots Mac and Frazier 1:19:00 - Rocky is trapped in a building 1:20:39 - Policemen shoot tear gas in through the window 1:23:10 - Jerry and Rocky confront one another 1:25:20 - Rocky throws his gun 1:31:44 - Rocky punches a guard

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42 chord | advance plot | agitated | altered dominant | appoggiatura | arguing | attacking | building | capturing | casino | chaos | chasing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | chromatic wedge | climax | climbing | conflict | conversing | crowd | cut from film | death | diminished 7th chord | diminution | dissonant bass | dramatic | dying | entering | escaping | evading | falling | fighting | fleeing | following | gangster | gun | gunshot | half-diminished 7th chord | hurrying | jumping | landing | lawyer | leading man | linear chromaticism | major 7th chord | mickey-mousing | montage | murderer | newspaper editor | newspaper office | parallelism | pedal tone | police | polychord | priest | prison | punching | rooftop | room | running | sequence | setup | shooting | shop | sign | sneaking | sneaky | stairwell | street | tense | throwing | tone cluster | underscoring | voice-exchange | walking | wedge | yelling