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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The Inspector General was released in 1949 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 43 reviews, giving The Inspector General (1949) an average rating of 71%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 79%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 0%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed The Inspector General a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 71%, The Inspector General is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1949, which stands at 63%.
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