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Lakeshore Classic Movies
The Inspector General (1949)
Season 2023
Episode 40
Danny Kaye stars in this musical farce as a simple man in a traveling medicine show who is mistaken by the corrupt town officials as a passing Inspector General. Worried that he will uncover their scheme, they make several bungled attempts to kill the hapless fool.
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