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Title: The Inspector General

Release Date: 31 Dec 1949

Runtime: 1h 41m

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance

Director: Warner Bros. Pictures, First National Pictures

Production Companies: Warner Bros. Pictures, First National Pictures

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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.4 (50 votes)

Cast

  • Georgi: Danny Kaye
  • Yakov: Walter Slezak
  • Leza: Barbara Bates
  • Maria: Elsa Lanchester
  • The Mayor: Gene Lockhart
  • Kovatch: Alan Hale
  • Colonel Castine: Walter Catlett
  • Inspector General: Rhys Williams
  • Telecki (uncredited): Benny Baker
  • Lieutenant (uncredited): Leonard Bremen
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