Haha, man, I sooooooooooooo forgot how weird The Night of the Hunter is. But to me, I guess, it's like Revolutionary Girl Utena, in that it's very stylized and builds its own weird sort of reality, and also doesn't ask the viewer to take it completely seriously. It's like one of those old style fairy tales that are just completely insane and fucked up things happen. (Seriously, read those things. They make no sense at all and are just messed up everywhere.)
1. The African Queen (1951): Boat captain Charlie Allnut warns brother and sister missionaries, Samuel and Rose Sayer, about the impending war between the British and the Germans in German East Africa in 1914. Unfortunately, the Germans soon storm the mission village and Samuel ends up dead afterward. Rose meets up with Charlie, and after Charlie mentions a German gunboat that patrols a lake down river, Rose convinces Charlie to take part in a plan in which they will torpedo the boat, even though the plan is near suicidal. Directed by John Huston, starring Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.
2. Clue (1985): Six strangers -- the famous house guests of the Clue board game -- are invited to a mansion during a stormy meeting. They are greeted by the butler, Wadsworth, and soon find out that they are each being blackmailed by their host, Mr. Boddy ... who then winds up dead. Somebody in the house is a murderer, and he or she must be caught before everyone winds up dead. Directed by Jonathan Lynn, starring Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, Martin Mull, Leslie Ann Warren, Michael McKean, Madeline Kahn and Christopher Lloyd.
3. Dog Day Afternoon (1975): Sonny Wortzik, his friend Sal and another accomplice attempt to rob a bank, but the plan quickly falls apart once the accomplice loses his nerve and flees the scene. The police are quickly alerted to suspicious activity in the bank; Sonny and Sal take the bank workers hostage, and the ordeal plays out for everyone in the streets and at home to see. Directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Al Pacino, John Cazale and Charles Durning.
4. Citizen Kane (1941): Wealthy media proprietor Charles Foster Kane dies alone in his massive estate, with but one final word floating from his lips: "Rosebud." Curious, a newsreel reporter researches Kane's private life -- from his beginnings as a child growing up in poverty to his run for governor -- to unravel the mystery behind that final word. Directed by and starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten and Dorothy Comingnore.
5. Vertigo (1958): John "Scottie" Ferguson retires from police work after a traumatizing incident in which his latent acrophobia rushes to the surface. However, he is hired a college friend to keep an eye on his wife, who is behaving in a peculiar way. Scottie slowly falls in love with the man's wife, Madeline, but her behavior grows stranger as he watches. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak.
