The Woman in Green

The Woman in Green is a 1945 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.

Template:Spoilers The plot revolves around a blackmail scheme hatched by Moriarty and 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 is is all part of a scheme to blackmail wealthy older men into believing that they have committed murder while suffering mysterious mental blackouts (which the men mistakenly attribute to drunkenness).

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