Many elements of "The Adventure of the Empty House" were used in the 1939–1946 Sherlock Holmes film series starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. In "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" (1943), Holmes a disguises himself as a German bookseller in Switzerland. "The Woman in Green" (1945) uses the scene in which a sniper attempts to shoot Holmes from across the street and shoots a wax bust instead, and is apprehended by Holmes and Watson who lie in wait. Colonel Sebastian Moran appears as the villain in "Terror by Night" (1946) as the last of Moriarty's gang.