The Woman in Green

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The Woman in Green
Directed by	Roy William Neill
Written by	Arthur Conan Doyle Bertram Millhauser
Starring	Basil Rathbone Nigel Bruce
Distributed by	Universal Studios
Release date(s)	27 July 1945
Running time	68 mins.
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear
Followed by	Pursuit to Algiers
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The Woman in Green (1945) is a Sherlock Holmes film starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, with Henry Daniell as Professor Moriarty, and Hillary Brooke in support. It is partly based on Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Empty House. It the 11th film of the Rathbone/Bruce series.

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The plot revolves around a blackmail scheme hatched by Moriarty (Daniell) and Lydia Marlowe (Brooke), a beautiful female hypnotist. Several young women have been murdered, and all of them have had one of their fingers severed. The baffled police call in Holmes, who is eventually able to deduce that it is all part of a scheme to blackmail wealthy older men into believing that they have committed murder and mutilation while suffering mysterious mental blackouts (which the men mistakenly attribute to drunkenness).

In a scene directly taken from the Conan Doyle story, a hypnotized ex-soldier turned assassin at one point tries to shoot Holmes through a window, but only succeeds in shattering a bust of Julius Caesar.