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The Inspector General is a 1949 American Technicolor musical comedy film, suggested by the play by Nikolai Gogol. It stars Danny Kaye and was directed by Henry Koster. The film also stars Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates, and Elsa Lanchester.
A 1949 film based on Nikolay Gogol's play, where a traveling medicine show performer is mistaken for a real inspector general by a corrupt town. Watch the trailer, see the cast and crew, read user and critic reviews, and find more like this movie on IMDb.
- (3.6K)
- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Henry Koster
- 1949-12-31
Feb 14, 2010 · A classic play that satirizes the corruption and inefficiency of the Russian bureaucracy through the arrival of a fictitious inspector-general. Learn about the historical and literary context, the characters and the plot of this masterpiece of Russian literature.
Nov 9, 2018 · The Inspector General stars Danny Kaye as Georgi, an illiterate member of a traveling medicine show who escapes to a mysterious town after accidentally revealing that the elixir they're selling...
- 102 min
- 8.2K
- The Film Detective
Directed by Henry Koster, The Inspector General is loosely adapted from Nikolai Gogol's classic Russian story, and it finds Kaye as a stooge of Walter Slezak's iffy tonic peddler who is mistaken by iffy officials of a small Russian town for the much feared an...
© 2024 Google LLC. #detective #investigation #comedy Danny Kaye plays a buffoon who is mistaken for a prominent visiting bureaucrat in a small European village in this riotous ...
- 102 min
- 7.7K
- TenaaTV
A classic Hollywood adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's play, starring Danny Kaye as a student who poses as a government inspector in a corrupt village. Watch the trailer, see the cast and crew, and read the film details on Turner Classic Movies.
