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The Inspector General(Movie, 1950)

1h 41min | Genres: Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
The Inspector GeneralRating: 3.2/5 (with 2121 votes)
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. 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 corrupted region of a European country that suddenly finds itself under the supervision of the First French Empire. ()
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Awards & Nominations for The Inspector General

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

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. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.

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Inspector General (1949)(Trailer, 1:58)

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: France
Based on the work of: Nikolai Gogol ("The Government Inspector")
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 11 languages: Catalan (CA), Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 12/31/1949
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Der Falsche Revisor"
"Der Generalinspektor"
"El inspector general"

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