The Woman in Green (1945)

December 10, 2024 10:24 AM

[TRAILER] Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.

Also starring Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke, Henry Daniell, Paul Cavanagh, Matthew Boulton, Eve Amber, Frederick Worlock, Percival Vivian, Coulter Irwin.

Directed by Roy William Neill. Screenplay by Bertram Millhauser. Based on characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with material taken from "The Final Problem" (1893) and "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" (1903). Produced by Roy William Neill for Universal Pictures. Cinematography by Virgil Miller. Edited by Edward Curtiss. Music by Mark Levant.

100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, though the 3.2 on Letterboxd might be a better way to calibrate.

Widely available streaming. JustWatch listing.

posted by DirtyOldTown (3 comments total)

This was my first time seeing Rathbone as Holmes. All of these story beats have been stolen so many times that I was left just watching it as an artefact.

Still, there's some fun in the way they show the woman in green's hypnotism. And Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce are great. You also get the expected lovely B&W cinematography and very professional production design of a Universal film of the era. Nice time, basically fit into my lunch break.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 10:28 AM on December 10, 2024 [1 favorite]

This film is in the public domain so it's available on Internet Archive.
posted by neckro23 at 2:15 PM on December 10, 2024

Could be a good time to break out the box set. 14 films iirc. I love them all.
posted by biffa at 1:26 PM on December 12, 2024