The Inspector General is a 1949 American Technicolor musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates, and Elsa Lanchester.

Georgi, a naive and kind-hearted member of a band of Gypsies is kicked out by their leader Yakov after revealing to some villagers that the elixir they were peddling was fake.

They are frightened when they learn that the Inspector General, an emissary appointed by Napoleon Bonaparte to weed out corruption, is in their region and known to come in disguise.

[1] The Inspector General is one of a number of major Hollywood productions from the 1940s and 1950s that have lapsed into the public domain in the United States.

[6] The last copyright holder was United Artists Television (later Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and finally Turner Entertainment) and later absorbed by TimeWarner now WarnerMedia & Warner Bros.