a brilliant sherlock holmes adventure star the brilliant basil rathbone and nigel bruce . despite many other actor brilliantly play holmes and watson and make a great job of it rathbone and bruce will always be the best two . holmes take a professor tobell from switzerland to london . tobell be want by the nazi . he have a bomb sight that could win the second world war . his bomb site have be split into four part and each hidden in book . tobell agree to give his bomb site to the british government . on the night of his arrival and tobell go to the house of his girlfriend . he have draw some figure of men and if tobell be to disappear and the lady be to give the drawing to holmes . on his journey home he be attack and but a policeman stop this and the attacker run away . tobell be happy for the british government to use his bomb site but refuse to give it to them and tobell want to look after it . the bomb site be split into four part and each part completely useless without the other . he give one part each of this bomb site to one of his scientist friend . then holmes great fear happens and tobell go miss . holmes visit the young lady tobell be with the night he be attack . she tell him about the drawing . the drawing have be steal . she say only one man come in during the time tobell leave and to fix the light bulb . the man she describe be professor moriarty . he be work for the nazi . see a he have the drawing and holmes be do for . but he find the write pad he use and use science and he manage to see what tobell drew by look at the next page on the pad . he see it code . he see it the name of four scientist . the first three he work out the code for and but he can not work out the fourth . the three scientist he have work out have be murder and the bomb site have be take . holmes can not work out the fourth scientist and but neither can moriarty . disguise a a sailor and holmes manages to get in moriarty office . moriarty see straight away it holmes and put him in a box and have him throw in the sea . but watson and lestrade insist they search the box and find holmes in it . it now obvious moriarty be at large . holmes manage to work out the fourth code and a frederick hoffner . holmes get round to his house straight away and get hoffner and the decisive fourth part to safety . holmes now need to get moriarty charge for work with the nazi . he pretend to be hoffner . moriarty work out the fourth code and get two men to go round and get hoffner . they take him back and he come face to face with moriarty . meanwhile tobell be not in a good way and he have be torture and torture to get the name of the fourth scientist . moriarty have have it with holmes now and he have get him and his death must be a long one for holmes . the idea be to put him in his hospital and put a needle in his vein and watch him die of blood loss and drop by drop . watson run in and save the day though . moriarty get away and but holmes be only careless enough to leave moriarty trap door open . moriarty plunge sixty foot . so and moriarty dead . no . he make his final outing in the film the woman in green but in green he be definitely dead and a suicide and he jump off his roof . it be moriarty second of three appearance in the rathbone series and a different actor play him on each occasion . his first appearance in the adventure of sherlock holmes be play by george zucco and his second in this film he be play by lionell atwill and henry daniel play him in his final outing in the woman in green the first three holmes film make by universal be set in the war a holmes triumph over the nazi . the voice of terror be the first and then this film and then sherlock holmes in washington then it be back to victorianish time and with definite relation to edwardian and georgian ( george the fifth and sixth ) time . this film have a close link to the sherlock holmes short story the dance men which can be find in the return of sherlock holmes a great film and though obvious propaganda and it be a brilliant holmes out .