The Inspector General

Name: The Inspector General
Director: Henry Koster
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: 1949-12-31
Duration: 1 h 41 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates, Elsa Lanchester, Gene Lockhart

“The Kaye way to chaos and corruption.”

1949

1h 41m

Comedy Romance

Director: Henry Koster

Writers: Harry Kurnitz, Philip Rapp

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Overview

An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.