The Inspector General - Danny Kaye

1949 Technicolor musical-comedy suggested by the play by Nikolai Gogol, directed by Henry Koster and starring Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Alan Hale, Gene Lockhart and Barbara Bates and Elsa Lanchester in the girl parts. Original music and lyrics are by the associate producer Sylvia Fine, who was married to Danny Kaye.

Snake-oil salesman Danny Kaye is arrested and sentenced to be hanged, (by the neck until dead!), by the seedy town officials, who are all related, and who mistakenly believe that Kaye is the Inspector General sent to investigate their corrupt little village.