The Woman in the Case is a 1916 American silent drama film produced by the Famous Players Film Company and distributed through Paramount Pictures.

Hugh Ford directed star Pauline Frederick as Margaret Rolfe.

An Australian film of the same name based on Fitch's play was also produced in 1916 and is now lost.

This American film, recently rediscovered in a European archive, survives but is missing the last reel.

[1][2][3] Filmed again by Paramount in 1922 as The Law and the Woman with Betty Compson and as a talkie in 1932 as The Wiser Sex.