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One of my all time favorites.

best movie i've ever seen.

A Masterpiece!

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) once again faces off with his nemesis Professor Moriarty (Henry Daniell), as well as a beautiful hypnotist (Hillary Brooke), in this entertaining entry in Universal's Sherlock Holmes series. Henry Daniell was probably my favorite Moriarty from the series. He wasn't hammy at all. The guy just oozed intellectual evil. Rathbone and Nigel Bruce are excellent as Holmes & Watson, as usual. Purists balk at Bruce's Watson but I think he's lots of fun and immensely likable. Hillary Brooke has one of her better roles here. Some good direction from Roy William Neill. This is one of the Universal Holmes films now in public domain so make sure you watch a good copy.

Roy William Neil directed Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce as Sherlock Holmes & Doctor Watson. This time, a grisly series of murders of women where they had a finger cut off after death have been occurring, and Holmes is determined to solve them. The trail leads to the title character(though no reference to green is made, and as it's a Black & White film...) Also involved is Professor Moriarty, now played by Henry Daniell, taking over from Lionel Atwill, despite dying in "The Secret Weapon"(Huh?) Good cast of course, but film is dull, and lazily written, with Moriarty's involvement and ultimate fate absurd and uninspired. At least this was his last appearance!

A vast majority of the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films make for very entertaining stuff. The Woman in Green is not one of the best of them, Hound of the Baskervilles, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Scarlet Claw, Pearl of Death and The Spider Woman are better, but it is certainly better than the war-time entries. The story can have a tendency to stutter and start up again and takes a little too much time to get going, Watson's mocking of hypnotism scene was pretty embarrassing and fell flat and the new Inspector is an unfunny wimp, even Lestrade at his most idiotic is more tolerable. The Woman in Green is beautifully filmed though, with some nice spooky shadows and lighting and atmospheric scenery. The eeriness of the music for mainly mesmerising the victims genuinely gives a sense of uneasiness, while the dialogue is intelligent and sometimes funny and the ending is appropriately chilling and with the right amount of thrills. The direction is always solid and comes across particularly effectively in the hypnotism scenes. The acting is fine. Basil Rathbone is great as always, he has lost a little of his freshness but he is still commanding as Holmes and doesn't change any opinion of him being the best of the film incarnations of Holmes(in general for the character only Jeremy Brett is slightly superior). Nigel Bruce is amusing, though occasionally a little too blustery and bumbling, and has some of the film's most memorable moments with the sole exception of the mocking hypnotism scene. Hillary Brooke is visually entrancing and also gives a very good performance, not quite Gale Sondergaard but an effective female foil. Henry Daniell is excellent as Moriaty, George Zucco and Lionel Atwill may be a little more threatening in comparison to Daniell's more contained and soft-spoken approach, but Daniell is appropriately icy and suave in a subdued way. Overall, a good and mostly well-done film but not one of the best of the Rathbone Holmes films. 7/10 Bethany Cox

*Spoiler/plot- The Woman In Green, 1945, Sherlock Holmes is called to solve the "finger murders," a series of brutal and seemingly unconnected killings of women in London, and finds a beautiful hypnotist and his old enemy, Professor Moriarty, lurking in the shadows.*Special Stars- Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Henry Daniell and Hillary Brooke star.*Theme- Holmes solves every crime, eventually.*Trivia/location/goofs- Hillary Brooke is delightful. Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's brother is mentioned, but not seen in this movie. Dr. Watson was supposed to remove his trousers under hypnosis, but he only lifts his trouser leg in the final film. Dr. Moriarity falls to his death, or did he? *Emotion-An enjoyable mystery in the Rathbone Holmes series. Several plot devices from many Holmes stories are incorporated into this film and this film has enough drama and intrigue to satisfy everyone.