Professor G. H. Dorr is the villainous main protagonist of the 2004 remake of The Ladykillers.
He was played by Tom Hanks, who also played Michael Sullivan in Road to Perdition, the Ebenezer Scrooge Puppet in The Polar Express, Eamon Bailey in The Circle, and Tom Parker in Elvis.
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Professor G. H. Dor is a southern classicist and a fan of Edgar Allen Poe, who is interested in renting a room from Marva Munson, heroine and devout Baptist, and root cellar of what he says for music rehearsals, which she allows. It turns out he and his musical band are a team of criminals, thieves, who plan to steal money from a nearby riverboat casino. How they get rid of their evidence, like dirt, is toss the dirt off a bridge, on a garbage barge, when it passes by and down.
Although Gawain, criminal and villain, loses his job as a janitor at the riverboat, they are stealing from. After the other crooks talk to him, he makes amends to his boss and gets his job back. Then Pickles, Munson's cat, runs off with a finger of Garth's, another criminal and villain, when a plastic explosive explodes in his hand by accident. A cop and hero visit Munson's house as well and Munson tries to introduce Dorr, he leaves and Dorr, hiding under his bed doesn't meet the sheriff.
Dorr and the other bad guys successfully steal the money from the riverboat casino. However, Munson finds out what they did. Even though Dorr attempts to lie to her by saying that they'll donate the dough to a Christian college, which Munson loves, she almost accepts but then sees a picture of her late husband, who stares at her sternly, and turns down what Dorr said and says she knows their intentions were good. She won't call the sheriff if they return the money and go to church with her too and says it's either give back the money and church, or go to jail. Dorr and his gang set in motion to kill her.
One by one, the band of crooks are killed and die before they can destroy her. Dorr's admiration of a raven, he sees at the trash dropoff bridge breaks the head of a statue above him. The statue's head falls on Dorr and he's knocked off the railing and then his cape gets caught on the ironwork, breaking his neck in the process. Dorr's body then falls on the barge.
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