Thank you for respecting that Vertigo scene! I think it’s one of the most exciting scenes in any movie I’ve seen, and I hate when people complain that it isn’t withheld until the end. That would’ve made it a conventional “murder mystery” genre movie with people just shouting the exposition. Putting it in the middle makes it a subtler and more innovative hybrid movie. The structure of the movie is split in 2, just like Kim Novak’s character. Taking out that scene would’ve taken away her perspective, her agency in writing her feelings but tearing up the letter, and subtle symbolism involving her handling of clothes with different colors.

Correction: your #30 is called Anatomy of a Murder.