Synopsis
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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Details
- Released
- 31 December 1949
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Director
- Henry Koster
- Writers
- Harry Kurnitz, Philip Rapp
- Countries
- United States of America
- Languages
- English
- Production
- Warner Bros. Pictures, First National Pictures
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Cast
Danny Kaye
Walter Slezak
Barbara Bates
Elsa Lanchester
Gene Lockhart
Alan Hale
Walter Catlett
Rhys Williams
Benny Baker
Leonard Bremen