Summary: 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. (imdb)

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Genres: Comedy, Musical

Country: USA

Directed By: Henry Koster

Written By: Harry Kurnitz, Nikolai Gogol

Starring: Gene Lockhart, Elsa Lanchester, Alan Hale, Walter Slezak, Danny Kaye, Barbara Bates

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