Professor Moriarty (Basil Rathbone movies character)

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For the other versions of the character, see James Moriarty (homonymy)

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" Closer to the end, Holmes. Closer and closer. Each second a few more drops leave your desiccated body. And you can feel 'em can't you? You're perfectly conscious aren't you, Holmes?
— The Professor Moriarty
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The Professor Moriarty is the main antagonist of the Sherlock Holmes movie series featuring Basil Rathbone. He's a brilliant criminal mastermind, first in Victorian England then in 1940s.

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The Professor Moriarty was a ruthless and greedy criminal mastermind, perfectly willing to betraying his own country at war times only for money. He also clearly enjoyed battle of wits, taking pleasure of taking on Sherlock Holmes in an intellectual way. However, despite his brilliance, he was noted by Sherlock Holmes to be lacking imagination, only proposing to the detective commons ways of dying, like gas, poison or a bullet in the head.

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