The Inspector General
The Inspector General
Release: 1949-12-31
·Runtime: 101m
·★ 6.5
Comedy
Music
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Warner Bros. Pictures
First National Pictures
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Walter Slezak
as Yakov
Arthur Tovey
as Townsman (uncredited)
Si Jenks
as Deaf Villager (uncredited)
Gene Lockhart
as The Mayor
Rhys Williams
as Inspector General
Leonard Bremen
as Lieutenant (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
as Burbis (uncredited)
Norman Leavitt
as Lazlo (uncredited)
Maudie Prickett
as Townwoman (uncredited)
Walter Catlett
as Colonel Castine
Jimmy Conlin
as Turnkey (uncredited)
Sam Hearn
as Gizzick (uncredited)
Jeff York
as Guard (uncredited)
Benny Baker
as Telecki (uncredited)
Marc Krah
as Gypsy (uncredited)
Ida Moore
as Old Villager (uncredited)
Buddy Roosevelt
as Sentry (uncredited)
Danny Kaye
as Georgi
Herbert Heywood
as Goatherd (uncredited)
Jack Mower
as Villager (uncredited)
Paul Newlan
as Viertel - the Woodchopper (uncredited)
Nestor Paiva
as Gregor (uncredited)
Barbara Pepper
as Buxom Villager (uncredited)
Lester Sharpe
as Sentry (uncredited)
Barbara Bates
as Leza
Elsa Lanchester
as Maria
George Davis
as Ladislaus (uncredited)
Fred Kelsey
as Villager (uncredited)
Alan Hale
as Kovatch
Joan Vohs
as Peasant Girl (uncredited)
Crew
Henry Koster
Director
Harry Kurnitz
Screenplay
Natalie Kalmus
Color Designer
Rudi Fehr
Editor
Sylvia Fine
Associate Producer
Edwin B. DuPar
Special Effects
Jerry Wald
Producer
Johnny Green
Original Music Composer, Music Director
Travilla
Costume Design
Ben Hecht
Additional Writing
Nikolai Gogol
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