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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.
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- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Henry Koster
- 1949-12-31
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.
- Henry Koster, Art Lueker
- Danny Kaye
The Inspector General (1949) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
In the United States, Office of Inspector General (OIG) is a generic term for the oversight division of a federal or state agency aimed at preventing inefficient or unlawful operations within their parent agency.
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 Government Inspector, also known as The Inspector General (Russian: Ревизор, romanized: Revizor, literally: "Inspector"), is a satirical play by Russian dramatist and novelist, Nikolai Gogol. Originally published in 1836, the play was revised for an 1842 edition.
