The Inspector General

Year: 1949

Runtime: 101 mins

Language: English

Director: Henry Koster

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An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show drifts into a town and is arrested for vagrancy. Corrupt town officials pocketing tax money mistake him for the inspector general and fear he will expose their scheme. They launch a series of bungling attempts to kill him, sending the whole community spiraling into chaotic turmoil.

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