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The Inspector General

The Kaye way to chaos and corruption.

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The Inspector General — Plot

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.

  • Release date
  • December 31, 1949
  • Runtime
  • 101 min
  • Genres
  • Comedy, Romance
  • Director
  • Henry Koster

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The Inspector General — Cast

Danny Kaye photo Danny Kaye Georgi Walter Slezak photo Walter Slezak Yakov Barbara Bates photo Barbara Bates Leza Elsa Lanchester photo Elsa Lanchester Maria Gene Lockhart photo Gene Lockhart The Mayor Alan Hale photo Alan Hale Kovatch Walter Catlett photo Walter Catlett Colonel Castine Rhys Williams photo Rhys Williams Inspector General

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