The Inspector General (1950)

Directed by

Henry Koster

Genre

comedy film, musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 58 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a corrupt European town under French rule, a traveling assistant is mistaken for a government inspector. He decides to play along with the case of mistaken identity.

whimsicalcomicalupbeatplayfullightheartedsillyfast-pacedmusical

What happens

The Inspector General is a 1949 American Technicolor musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates, and Elsa Lanchester. Original music and lyrics are by the associate producer Sylvia Fine, who was married to Danny Kaye, with Johnny Green credited for musical direction and incidental score. The film is loosely based on Nikolai Gogol's play The Inspector General. The plot is re-located from the Russian Empire into an unspecified corrupt region of a European country that suddenly finds itself under the supervision of the First French Empire. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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