She informs the police about the money, but they think she is insane and tell her to keep it; she decides to donate it to Bob Jones University. The Ladykillers ends by showing Pickles dropping Garth's severed finger onto the barge. Cast Tom Hanks as Goldthwaite Higginson Dorr, Ph.D., the mastermind of the casino heist. He is a Southern professor of Roman classics and Edgar Allan Poe enthusiast, who rents Mrs. Munson's apartment as a stage for the robbery. Dorr is very articulate, charming, and is somewhat pretentious. He is a recognizable parody of some of William Faulkner's characters and also bears some resemblance to Manly Pointer in Flannery O'Connor's Good Country People. Irma P. Hall as Marva Munson, a well-meaning, God-fearing elderly widow. She shares her name with the judge in the previous Coen film Intolerable Cruelty. Marlon Wayans as Gawain MacSam, the foul-mouthed, hotheaded janitor of the Bandit Queen Casino and the inside man. J. K. Simmons as Garth Pancake, a garrulous demolitions expert who suffers from IBS. He has a female partner, Mountain Girl, whom he met at an "Irritable Bowel Singles" weekend. Tzi Ma as "The General", the often silent owner of the Hi-Ho Donut store in the town. It is strongly implied that he gained his rank and experience tunneling for the Vietcong. Ryan Hurst as Lump Hudson, the brawn of the group and a former football player who "is not very intelligent". He at first refers to Dorr as "Coach". Diane Delano as Mountain Girl, Pancake's female partner and right hand gal. She wears braids and dresses in mountain clothing. George Wallace as Sheriff Wyner, the lazy sheriff of Saucier. Stephen Root as Mr. Gudge, the intolerant but weak-willed manager of the Bandit Queen Casino. Jason Weaver as Weemack Funthes, janitor of the Bandit Queen Casino. Greg Grunberg as TV commercial director Blake Clark as Football Coach Aldis Hodge as Doughnut Gangster Jeremy Suarez as Li'l Gawain Bruce Campbell (uncredited cameo) as Humane Society worker Development At one point the film was to have been directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, the Coens' former cinematographer. The Coens were originally commissioned to write the screenplay only. When Sonnenfeld backed out, the Coens were eventually hired as directors, with Sonnenfeld retaining a producer credit. Production In the sequence where the gang begins to dump the corpses into the river to dispose of them, a garbage barge catches each