The Woman in Green
About The Woman in Green
Young women are found murdered in London, each missing a finger. Scotland Yard calls the killer a madman. Holmes treats the fingers as part of a plot. Professor Moriarty is behind it, and Hillary Brooke plays the woman in green.
Cast & crew
More about The Woman in Green
Roy William Neill produced and directed the eleventh of the fourteen Rathbone-Bruce Holmes films. Bertram Millhauser wrote it, using material from "The Final Problem" and "The Adventure of the Empty House." Virgil Miller photographed it. Edward Curtiss edited it. Paul Dessau wrote the music. Universal released it. Wikidata lists June 15, 1945, and 68 minutes. Basil Rathbone plays Holmes. Nigel Bruce plays Watson. Henry Daniell plays Moriarty. Matthew Boulton plays Inspector Gregson, in place of Dennis Hoey's Lestrade. The film is in the public domain. A copy is on the Internet Archive as TWIG1945.
Themes
Making
Neill put Daniell back in the series as Moriarty and swapped Gregson in for Lestrade.
Look
Virgil Miller shot the London murders and Moriarty's rooms.
Music
Paul Dessau wrote the music.
Preservation
One of four films in the Rathbone series that are in the public domain.
Notes
- Brooke's other Holmes pictures are Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror and Sherlock Holmes Faces Death.
- Daniell had already played two other parts in the series before Moriarty.
- Mary Gordon is billed as Mrs. Hudson.
- The Commons file is dated 1945, matching the release, not the 1944 year on this record.
Scenes
- A murdered woman is found with a finger gone.
- Holmes ties the cuttings to Moriarty rather than to a maniac.
Influenced by
- Arthur Conan Doyle's The Final Problem
- Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Empty House
Also available
- Internet Archive (TWIG1945)
