The Woman in Green

"From her LIPS — poison that bred MURDER!"

1945 1h 8m EN

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6.5

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6.6

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★6.5TMDB · 160🍅100%Rotten Tomatoes★6.6IMDB · 7,376

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Synopsis

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Sherlock Holmes 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.

“From her LIPS — poison that bred MURDER!”

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Cast

Basil Rathbone
Sherlock Holmes
Nigel Bruce
Dr. John Watson
Hillary Brooke
Lydia Marlowe
Henry Daniell
Professor James Moriarty
Paul Cavanagh
Sir George Fenwick
Matthew Boulton
Inspector Gregson
Eve Amber
Maude Fenwick
Frederick Worlock
Dr. Onslow

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Roy William Neill
Writers: Bertram Millhauser
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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Tight 68-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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ERA

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81 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Roy William Neill, shot by Virgil Miller. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Edward Curtiss shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce and Hillary Brooke carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "From her LIPS — poison that bred MURDER!".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0038259 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Roy William Neill directs. Virgil Miller behind the camera. Edward Curtiss cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Tight 68-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
281 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Part of the "Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Roy William Neill, shot by Virgil Miller. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Editor Edward Curtiss shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce and Hillary Brooke carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "From her LIPS — poison that bred MURDER!".
8IMDB entry: tt0038259 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 21 themes, including "london, england", "amnesia", "blackmail", "scotland yard".
10Released under 13 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Virgil Miller
Editing: Edward Curtiss
Costume design: Vera West
Runtime: 68 min · 1h 8m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: The Woman in Green (1945)
Rotten Tomatoes: 100% 🍅 Fresh
IMDB rating: 6.6/10 · 7,376 votes
MPAA: Approved

Part of

Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) Collection

A series of fourteen films based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories was released between 1939 and 1946; the British actors Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce played Holmes and Dr. John Watson, respectively. The first two films in the series were produced by 20th Century Fox and released in 1939. The studio stopped making the films after these, but Universal Pictures acquired the rights from the Doyle estate and produced a further twelve films. Although the films from 20th Century Fox had large budgets, high production values, and were set in the Victorian era, Universal updated the films to the contemporary era of the Second World War, and produced them as B pictures with lower budgets. Both Rathbone and Bruce continued their roles when the series changed studios, as did Mary Gordon, who played the recurring character, Mrs. Hudson.

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CinemaSerf2022-07-01
★ 7/10
This is maybe not one of the better of the fourteen outings for Messrs. Rathbone and Bruce, but it's still a thoroughly enjoyable watch as "Holmes" and "Watson" have to get to the bottom of a mystery that involves a series of apparently unrelated killings linked only by the fact that each victim has a severed finger. No "Lestrade" this time, but Matthew Boulton is "Insp. Gregson" who together with our deductive duo, tries to get to the bottom of it all - and as their investigations deepen, they discover that their long thought dead nemesis "Prof. Moriarty" (Henry Daniell) is back and even more nasty! This also has a suitably classy, menacing performance from Hilary Brooke as femme fatale "Lydia Marlow" to keep the pot boiling before quite a tense denouement. Well worth a watch.

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