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The Woman in Green (1945)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1945
Running Times: 64 mins 5 sec (UK - video (1990))
66 mins 52 sec (UK - video (1994))
67 mins 43 sec (UK - theatrical (1945))
Format: black and white 35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
 PRODUCTION
Production Company: Universal Pictures
Producer: Roy William Neill
SCRIPT
Script: Bertram Millhauser
Story: The Adventure of the Empty House by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
DIRECTION
Director: Roy William Neill
Assistant Director: Melville Shyer
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Virgil Miller
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Edward Curtiss
MUSIC
Musical Director: Mark Levant
Music: Paul Dessau, William Lava, Hans J. Salter, Paul Sawtell, Frank
Skinner (uncredited)
SOUND
Sound Director: Bernard B. Brown
Sound Technician: Glenn E. Anderson
Sound Mix: Western Electric Sound System
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Gowns: Vera West
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: John P. Fulton
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Directors: John B. Goodman, Martin Obzina
Set Decorators: Russell A. Gausman, Ted Von Hemert
MISCELLANEOUS
Dialogue Director: Raymond Kessler
CAST
Basil Rathbone (Sherlock Holmes)
Nigel Bruce (Dr John H. Watson)
Hillary Brooke (Lydia Marlow)
Henry Daniell (Professor Moriarty)
Matthew Boulton (Inspector Gregson)
Sally Shepherd (Crandon)
Paul Cavanagh (Sir George Fenwick)
Frederick Worlock (Dr Onslow)
Tom Bryson (Corporal Williams)
Eve Amber (Maude Fenwick)
Mary Gordon (Mrs Hudson)
Percival Vivian (Dr Simnell)
Alec Harford (Commissioner of the CID)
John Burton
Harold De Becker (shoelace seller - uncredited)
Leslie Denison (Vincent - uncredited)
Tony Ellis (Carter - uncredited)
Jackie Lou Harding (fourth victim - uncredited)
Ivo Henderson, Colin Hunter (constables - uncredited)
Tommy Hughes (Newsman - uncredited)
Olaf Hytten (Norris - uncredited)
Arthur Stenning (Mesmer Club servant - uncredited)
PLOT SUMMARY
Investigating a series of brutal killings, in which the thumbs of the
right hand of the female victims has been hacked off, Holmes and Watson
find themselves again pursuing their arch-enemy, the nefarious Professor
Moriarty who is running a blackmail plot.
CAPSULE REVIEW
The resurrection of Moriarty (without a single word of explanation)
seems little more than an act of desperation to rescue a series that
was now past its peak and unraveling rapidly. Henry Daniel gives a good
account as Moriarty, but let's be honest he's no George Zucco, and is
displaced somewhat by Hillary Brooke's femme fatale. A disappointingly
routine thriller.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Theatrical Distributor: General Film Distributors
Video Distributor: Orbit Media (ORB0005)
DVD Distributor: Orbit Media (HSC0052)
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Universal Pictures Company Inc
Video Distributors: Madacy Entertainment; Republic Studios; New Media
Resources; Alpha Video Distributors; VCI Home Video; Celebrity Duplicating;
United American Video; Twentieth Century Fox
DVD Distributors: Alpha Video Distributors; BFS Entertainment and Multimedia;
Platinum Disc Corporation; Koch Full Moon Releasing
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
UK
Rating: A; PG (1990)
USA
Rating: PG
TIMELINE
1945
June
21: UK - rated A by the BBFC (for theatrical release)
July
27: USA - theatrical release
1955
February
1: USA - television broadcast (on CBS)
1960
July
19: UK - television broadcast (on Rediffusion)
1985
January
1: USA - video release (label not known)
1987
March
25: USA - video release (Celebrity Duplicating)
1989
January
5: USA - video release (Republic Studios)
1990
April
4: UK - rated PG by the BBFC (for video release)
1993
March
10: USA - video release (Twentieth Century Fox)
1994
August
5: UK - rated PG by the BBFC (for video release)
1995
January
15: USA - video release (Madacy Entertainment)
March
Day Unknown: UK - television broadcast (on Channel Four)
October
Day Unknown: UK - television broadcast (on Channel Four)
1998
April
14: USA - video release (Madacy Entertainment)
October
12: USA - video release (United American Video)
2000
June
30: UK - television broadcast (on BBC2)
October
9: UK - DVD release (Orbit Media (HSC0052))
November
21: USA - DVD release (Koch Full Moon Releasing)
28: USA - video release (VCI Home Video)
2001
March
5: UK - video release (Orbit Media (ORB0005))
May
1: USA - video release (New Media Resources)
October
9: USA - DVD release (BFS Entertainment and Multimedia)
September
9: USA - DVD release (Platinum Disc Corporation)
November
27: USA - DVD and video releases (Alpha Video Distributors)
POSTER TAGS
ONCE IN HER ARMS - no man could refuse her love - or his
LIFE!
From Her LIPS - Poison That Bred MURDER!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
La donna in verde - Italian title
Die Frau in Grün - German title
Sherlock Holmes and the Woman in Green - promotional
title
LINKS
SEQUEL TO
The Hound
of the Baskervilles (1939)
The
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
Sherlock
Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret
Weapon (1942)
Sherlock
Holmes in Washington (1943)
Sherlock
Holmes Faces Death (1943)
Spider Woman (1944)
The Scarlet Claw (1944)
The Pearl of Death
(1944)
The House of Fear (1945)
SEQUELS
Pursuit to Algiers
(1945)
Terror by Night (1946)
Dressed to Kill
(1946)
REMAKE
Hands of a Murderer
(1990)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Kinematograph Weekly no.1996 (19 July
1945) (UK)
review
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.12 no.140 (August
1945) p.100 (UK)
credits, review
Motion Picture Herald vol.159 no.12 (23
June 1945) (USA)
review
New York Motion Picture Critics Reviews vol.2
no.20 (18 June 1945) pp.320-321 (USA)
credits, review
Today's Cinema vol.65 no.5214 (18 July
1945) (UK)
review
BOOKS
Universal Horrors by Michael Brunas,
John Brunas and Tom Weaver (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co (1990))
credits, review
KEYWORDS
Sherlock Holmes,
detectives, sequels, hypnotism
Last Updated:
10 August, 2009
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