THE WOMAN IN GREEN (1945) *1/2 I'm not anti- Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes imitations, but he never caught the most important aspects of Holmes as well as Ronald Howard. Even by his own standards, though, Basil's depiction here is impersonal and unenthusiastic. There's a harder edge to it that hints at something interesting, without making any effort to go there. He'd already played the role at least ten times, and he couldn't have seen much in the script to inspire. Oh, it's not entirely dreary, Henry Daniell at least seems like a formidable opponent, and Nigel Bruce is slightly endearing as a bumbling Watson. Radical concepts like hypnotism and cannabis pills probably don't pack quite the punch they once did, though, and there's nothing that compensates by standing the tests of time.
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