The Inspector General

The Inspector General

6.5 / Rating 52 votes 1949 Age Rating: NR
Language: English
Country: United States

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.

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The Inspector General is a 1949 American Technicolor musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates, and Elsa Lanchester. Original music and lyrics are by the associate producer Sylvia Fine, who was married to Danny Kaye, with Johnny Green credited for musical direction and incidental score. The film is loosely based on Nikolai Gogol's play The Inspector General. The plot is re-located from the Russian Empire into an unspecified corrupted region of a European country that suddenly finds itself under the supervision of the First French Empire.