The Woman in Green

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.

50/100 Sherlock Holmes hunts done a murderer who collects women's fingers. Never watched a Basil Rathbone 'Holmes' film before and I doubt that I'll watch another. Rathbone was fine but he didn't really have much of a mystery to figure out ...especially considering its main plot device was hypnotism used in a completely unrealistic manner. My biggest complaint though was the depiction of Dr. Watson as a completely clueless moron. Perhaps that was considered comic relief 80 years ago but it made no sense to me and left me sadly cringing most of the time. - DrNostromo.com