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31/12/1949 Comedy, Romance 1h 41m
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The Kaye way to chaos and corruption.

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.

  1. Henry Koster

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Danny Kaye

    Georgi

  2. Walter Slezak

    Yakov

  3. Barbara Bates

    Leza

  4. Elsa Lanchester

    Maria

  5. Gene Lockhart

    The Mayor

  6. Alan Hale

    Kovatch

  7. Walter Catlett

    Colonel Castine

  8. Rhys Williams

    Inspector General

  9. Benny Baker

    Telecki (uncredited)

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2020-03-25
Oh, I have no wife. None of my family had wives. My father didn't like wives. I mean, my mother didn't like my father's wives.

Danny Kaye was a wonderful performer, he would sing, dance, tell jokes, turn his face into rubber and just generally come off as a quality humanitarian. The Inspector General showcases all of those talents.

Directed by Henry Koster, The Inspector General is loosely adapted from Nikolai Gogol's classic Russian story, and it finds Kaye as a stooge of Walter Slezak's iffy tonic peddler who is mistaken by iffy officials of a small Russian town for the much feared a...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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