The Inspector General
The Kaye way to chaos and corruption.
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- Comedy
- Romance
- Music
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.
Keywords
- corruption
- escape
- mayor
- medicine show
- snake oil
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 31, 1949
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Warner Bros. Pictures,First National Pictures
- Cast
- Danny Kaye,Walter Slezak,Barbara Bates,Elsa Lanchester,Gene Lockhart,Alan Hale,Walter Catlett,Rhys Williams,Benny Baker,Leonard Bremenand 36 more
- Director
- Henry Koster
- Producer
- Jerry Wald
- Cinematography
- Elwood Bredell
- Music
- Johnny Green
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0041509