The Inspector General

About The Inspector General

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.

The Inspector General is a 1949 comedy romance film directed by Henry Koster. Its themes are corruption, mayor, medicine show, and snake oil.

Danny Kaye appears as Georgi, Walter Slezak as Yakov, Barbara Bates as Leza, and Elsa Lanchester as Maria. At 101 minutes long, it arrived in December 1949.

The screenplay is by Harry Kurnitz and Philip Rapp. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and Fandor Amazon Channel.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Casablanca, and The Immigrant make useful companions to The Inspector General, all filed under escape. TMDB voters put it at 6.7 out of 10 across 60 votes and it carries a NR rating.