The Inspector General
Comedy
Music
Romance
The Kaye way to chaos and corruption.
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.
1949-12-31
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Cast
Director
Henry Koster
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)
Jimmy Conlin as Turnkey (uncredited)
George Davis as Ladislaus (uncredited)
Byron Foulger as Burbis (uncredited)
Sam Hearn as Gizzick (uncredited)
Herbert Heywood as Goatherd (uncredited)
Si Jenks as Deaf Villager (uncredited)
Fred Kelsey as Villager (uncredited)
Marc Krah as Gypsy (uncredited)
Norman Leavitt as Lazlo (uncredited)
Ida Moore as Old Villager (uncredited)
Jack Mower as Villager (uncredited)
Paul Newlan as Viertel - the Woodchopper (uncredited)
Nestor Paiva as Gregor (uncredited)
Barbara Pepper as Buxom Villager (uncredited)
Maudie Prickett as Townwoman (uncredited)
Buddy Roosevelt as Sentry (uncredited)
Lester Sharpe as Sentry (uncredited)
Arthur Tovey as Townsman (uncredited)
Joan Vohs as Peasant Girl (uncredited)
Jeff York as Guard (uncredited)