The Inspector General

IMDb link: 0041509
IMDb rating: 6.7 (3,840 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Musical
Director: Henry Koster
Cast: Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates, Danny Kaye, Elsa Lanchester and others

Release date: 31 Dec 1949
Release year: 1949
Runtime: 102 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: horseback riding, donkey braying, axe, horse and carriage, mythical country, screwball comedy, shooting into the air, shooting a bird in flight, kiss on both cheeks, embezzler

Plot:

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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