
The Inspector General
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: 1949-12-31
Comedy
Music
Romance
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Casts

Danny Kaye
as Georgi

Walter Slezak
as Yakov

Barbara Bates
as Leza

Elsa Lanchester
as Maria

Gene Lockhart
as The Mayor

Alan Hale
as Kovatch

Walter Catlett
as Colonel Castine

Rhys Williams
as Inspector General

Benny Baker
as Telecki (uncredited)

Leonard Bremen
as Lieutenant (uncredited)