The Inspector General
The Kaye way to chaos and corruption.
Comedy Romance
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.
Director Henry Koster
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Cast
Nestor Paiva
Gregor (uncredited)
Buddy Roosevelt
Sentry (uncredited)
Arthur Tovey
Townsman (uncredited)
Jack Mower
Villager (uncredited)
Joan Vohs
Peasant Girl (uncredited)
Sam Hearn
Gizzick (uncredited)
Paul Newlan
Viertel (uncredited)
George Davis
Ladislaus (uncredited)
Maudie Prickett
Townwoman (uncredited)
Walter Slezak
Yakov
Walter Catlett
Colonel Castine
Ida Moore
Old Villager (uncredited)
Barbara Pepper
Buxom Villager (uncredited)
Gene Lockhart
The Mayor
Rhys Williams
Inspector General
Herbert Heywood
Goatherd (uncredited)
Norman Leavitt
Lazlo (uncredited)
Lester Sharpe
Sentry (uncredited)
Jeff York
Guard (uncredited)
Barbara Bates
Leza
Jimmy Conlin
Turnkey (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Burbis (uncredited)
Fred Kelsey
Villager (uncredited)
Danny Kaye
Georgi
Elsa Lanchester
Maria
Benny Baker
Telecki (uncredited)
Alan Hale
Kovatch
Leonard Bremen
Lieutenant (uncredited)
Si Jenks
Deaf Villager (uncredited)
Marc Krah
Gypsy (uncredited)