The Inspector General
Release Date: 1949-12-31
Rating : 6.5/10
Duration : 101 minutes
Genres : Comedy, Music, Romance
Director : Henry Koster
Writer : Philip Rapp, Harry Kurnitz
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.
Cast
Danny Kaye
Walter Slezak
Barbara Bates
Elsa Lanchester
Gene Lockhart
Alan Hale