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The Inspector General (1949)

19491h 42mdir. Henry KosterEnglish subtitlesUnited Statesmusical filmcomedy film

With Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Gene Lockhart, Barbara Bates, Elsa Lanchester, Alan Hale, Rhys Williams, Walter Catlett

Directed by Henry Koster

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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.

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