The Inspector General

The Inspector General

★ 6.7IMDb Score
Released:1949-12-31
Duration:101 min
Director:Henry Koster
Actors:Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates, Elsa Lanchester, Gene Lockhart
Production:Warner Bros. Pictures, First National Pictures

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.

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