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Crime Street presents The Woman in Green (1945)Director - Roy William Neill December 26 at 9 pm on Channel 31
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Plot The PlotThe Woman in Green is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Empty House. In yet another updated to the 1940s films, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) is out to solve the serial murders of attractive women of London. The twisted plot point to this one is that each of the women's right forefingers have been severed. Is Professor Moriarty (Henry Daniell) yet again behind these crimes? CommentaryShadows and FogSevered fingers, hypnotism, black mail, night clubs and a cool blonde. These elements, along with expressionistic London shadows and fog, make for a very film noirish Sherlock Holmes outing. Cinematographer Virgil Miller, responsible for the look of the Charlie Chan and Mr Moto movies series, provides director Roy William Neill with black and white atmospheric mystery textures and extreme camera angles. The technique and style, and Basil Rathbone's aggressive interpretation of Holmes, more than make up for the simplistic plot. The Voice of Deductive Reasoning - Basil RathboneA veteran of World War I Basil Rathbone found post-war success on the English stage. He possessed a resonant stage voice that guaranteed him a steady career in Shakespeare throughout his life. His accomplished stage career brought him to Hollywood and the 1930's offered him numerous costume drama roles in such films as The Adventures of Robin Hood and A Tale of Two Cities. He played Sherlock Holmes in no less than 14 films and found himself helplessly typecast. His only relief was occasionally going back to the stage in London and Broadway. Meanwhile, his film career had fallen to roles in such fare as Hillbillys in a Haunted House and Planet of Blood. Alas Poor Watson...The main crime in the Hollywood/Rathbone Holmes series is the portrayal of Dr Watson as something of a bumbling old man. He's something like one bad note played by an otherwise consistently above average chamber orchestra. Trivia Pursuit of Hillary BrookeThe Woman in Green in this film is college-educated ex-model Hillary Brooke. In film, Ms Brooke, along with her upper class accent, was most often the cool, calculating blonde - a cultured Bad Girl. Her biggest fame, however, came in 1950s television as the object of Lou Costello's affections in the Abbott and Costello series. Her film appearances came more or less to an end in 1957. A few television appearances followed, but by 1961 her career was done. - Ed Schneider - Alameda TV Cast
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