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6.6An 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.
Released: 1949-12-31101 minDir: Henry KosterComedy, Music, Romance
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Cast
- 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
Themes
- corruption
- escape
- mayor
- snake oil
- medicine show
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Ratings
IMDb
6.7/10
3,654 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
91%
- Year
- 1949
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Rated
- Approved
- Awards
- 1 win
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- The Government Inspector
- Director
- Henry Koster
- Cast member
- Byron Foulger
- Composer
- Sylvia Fine
- Producer
- Sylvia Fine
- Production company
- Warner Bros. Entertainment
- Cinematographer
- Elwood Bredell
- Narrative location
- France
- Duration
- 102
- FilmAffinity ID
- 757286
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- The Inspector General (1949) 2.jpg
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- Commons category
- The Inspector General (1949 film)
- publication date
- 1950-01-01
- title
- The Inspector General
- after a work by
- Nikolai Gogol
- film editor
- Rudi Fehr
- nominated for
- Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score
- distributed by
- Netflix
- review score
- 91%
- copyright status
- public domain
- capital cost
- 2873000
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