when philo vance ( edmund lowe ) be stand precariously on the edge of a balcony high above the city and apparently hypnotize and just about to step to his death and it immediately remind me of a nearly identical scene in another film make nine year later and the woman in green in which sherlock holmes ( basil rathbone ) be similarly about to hurl himself into space while be hypnotize . happily and both philo vance and sherlock holmes survive these attempt at murder by unscrupulous criminal . excite cinematic suspense in both these scene . when will they learn you can not cloud the mind of great fictional detective .