The Woman in Green

The Woman in Green
1945 theatrical poster
Directed by	Roy William Neill
Produced by	Roy William Neill
Screenplay by	Bertram Millhauser
Based on	characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Starring	Basil Rathbone Nigel Bruce
Music by	Mark Levant
Cinematography	Virgil Miller
Edited by	Edward Curtiss
Production company	Universal Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	July 27, 1945 (1945-07-27) (United States)
Running time	68 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

External video

The Woman in Green Trailer at TCM Movie Database

The Woman in Green is a 1945 American film, the eleventh of the fourteen Sherlock Holmes films based on the characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle, starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, with Hillary Brooke as the woman of the title and Henry Daniell as Professor Moriarty. The film follows an original premise inspired by "The Final Problem" and "The Adventure of the Empty House."

This was the third and last film that Hillary Brooke and Basil Rathbone appeared in, others were also Sherlock Holmes films, Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) and Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943); and Henry Daniell appeared in the last two films with Basil Rathbone also in Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943).

When several women are murdered and their forefingers severed, Holmes and Watson are called into action, but Holmes is baffled by the crimes at the start. Widower Sir George Fenwick (Paul Cavanagh), after a romantic night alone with his girlfriend Lydia Marlowe (Hillary Brooke), is hypnotized into believing that he is responsible for the crimes. He is certain that he is guilty after he awakes from a stupor and finds a woman's forefinger in his pocket. His daughter comes to Holmes and Watson without realizing that Moriarty's henchman is following her. She tells Holmes and Watson that she found her father burying a forefinger under a pile of soil. She has dug up the forefinger and shows it to them.