The Inspector General
The Inspector General

The Inspector General

The Kaye way to chaos and corruption.

6.5(53 votes)
1949
1h 41m
Comedy
Music
Romance

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.

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures, First National Pictures

Cast

Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye

Georgi

Walter Slezak

Walter Slezak

Yakov

Barbara Bates

Barbara Bates

Leza

Elsa Lanchester

Elsa Lanchester

Maria

Gene Lockhart

Gene Lockhart

The Mayor

Alan Hale

Alan Hale

Kovatch

Walter Catlett

Walter Catlett

Colonel Castine

Rhys Williams

Rhys Williams

Inspector General

Benny Baker

Benny Baker

Telecki (uncredited)

Leonard Bremen

Leonard Bremen

Lieutenant (uncredited)

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