The Inspector General (1949)
"The Kaye way to chaos and corruption."
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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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Cast
Danny Kaye
Georgi
Walter Slezak
Yakov
Barbara Bates
Leza
Elsa Lanchester
Maria
Gene Lockhart
The Mayor
Alan Hale
Kovatch
Walter Catlett
Colonel Castine
Rhys Williams
Inspector General
Benny Baker
Telecki (uncredited)
Leonard Bremen
Lieutenant (uncredit...
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Robert Cherry
Peasant (uncredited)
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Frank Conlan
OId Villager (uncred...
Jimmy Conlin
Turnkey (uncredited)
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Helena Dare
Townwoman (uncredite...
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Bryn Davis
Councilman's Wife (u...