The woman in green
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| German title | The woman in green | ||
| Original title | The Woman in Green | ||
| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 1945 | ||
| length | 68 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
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| Director | Roy William Neill | ||
| script | Bertram Millhauser | ||
| production | Roy William Neill | ||
| music | Paul Dessau | ||
| camera | Virgil Miller | ||
| cut | Edward Curtiss | ||
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The Woman in Green ( GDR alternative title: The White Flower of Forgetting ) is an American feature film from 1945 . Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson was cast with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce , who first played these roles in a film adaptation of The Hound of Baskerville . It is the eleventh production in the film series with Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes.
action
Scotland Yard's Inspector Gregson is faced with gruesome serial killings in which young women are murdered and each has a little finger missing. The victims do not seem to have anything in common, so that the police proceed from a random selection of the victims and consider the perpetrator to be a mad affect killer. Sherlock Holmes disagrees as he thinks the murders are logically planned and suspects a bright mind behind the crimes.
Sir George Fenwick is found dead, and it quickly becomes apparent that he has committed suicide. At first glance, the serial killings and the suicide are not related. Holmes and his loyal friend Dr. Watson come up with an interesting lead. A respected man is involved in the series of murders after a young woman's severed finger was found. He was under the influence of others on the night of the murder and cannot remember many of the details of the past hours.
Holmes investigates the possibilities that exist to manipulate a person into committing murder without being able to remember it. He takes part in an informative evening organized by the Society for Hypnosis . There he learns about a young woman who often attends these evenings - the woman in green. Little by little he finds out about Professor Moriarty and his charming accomplice Lydia Marlowe. In a dangerous attempt, Holmes is hypnotized and nearly falls victim to Professor Moriaty's plan.
criticism
"A film from the Sherlock Holmes series by Universal Studios, which is counted among the best and most exciting of the series because of its good dialogues and actors."
production
Although The Woman in Green is not a Doyle story, it is based in part on the two Holmes short stories The Final Problem (1893) and The Adventures of the Empty House (1903).
First broadcast in Germany
The film was shown on May 7, 1969 by the GDR's German TV broadcaster . On November 20, 1983, it ran in the program of the West German Südwestrundfunk (S 3). In this slightly shortened German dubbed version, Walter Niklaus (Sherlock Holmes) and Alfred Bohl (Dr. Watson) spoke the main roles.
In 1980, an unabridged re-dubbing was produced by the Leipzig DEFA studio, Niklaus repeated his role, while Bruce was dubbed by Hinrich Köhn.
See also
DVD release
- The woman in green . On: The Sherlock Holmes Collection. Part 4 . Special Edition (4 DVD set). Koch Media 2007
Web links
- The Woman in Green at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The woman in green in the German dubbing index
- The woman in green in the dictionary of international films
- The Woman in Green at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions ZDF - Arte of Die Frau in Grün at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ The woman in green. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Ron Backer: Mystery movie series of 1940s Hollywood , McFarland 2010, pp. 78/79.