The Inspector General
The Kaye way to chaos and corruption.
Directed by Henry Koster
Produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, First National Pictures
A farcical romp where mistaken identity and slapstick chaos expose small-town corruption, driven by physical comedy and absurdist misunderstandings.
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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