Directed by:
Henry KosterCinematography:
Elwood BredellComposer:
Johnny GreenCast:
Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates, Elsa Lanchester, Gene Lockhart, Alan Hale, Leonard Bremen, Jack Mower, Byron Foulger, Walter Catlett, Norman Leavitt (more)VOD (1)
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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. (Bounty Films)
(more)Cast
Danny Kaye
USA
Best movies:
A Song Is Born (1948)
Trumbo (2015) - a.f.
Nightcrawler (2014) - a.f.
Walter Slezak
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Michael (1924)
Born to Kill (1947)
Lifeboat (1944)
Barbara Bates
USA
Best movies:
All About Eve (1950)
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
Johnny Belinda (1948)
Elsa Lanchester
UK
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Murder by Death (1976)
Gene Lockhart
Canada
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Madame Curie (1943)
Alan Hale
USA
Best movies:
It Happened One Night (1934)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Leonard Bremen
USA
Best movies:
The Front Page (1974)
The Young Philadelphians (1959)
The People Against O'Hara (1951)
Jack Mower
USA
Best movies:
Miracle of Fatima (1952)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Byron Foulger
USA
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
Edison, the Man (1940)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Walter Catlett
USA
Best movies:
It Started with Eve (1941)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Love Is News (1937)
Norman Leavitt
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Showdown (1963)
Joe Ploski
USA
Best movies:
Inherit the Wind (1960)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Stalag 17 (1953)
Fred Kelsey
USA
Best movies:
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Storm Warning (1951)
Love Is News (1937)
Jimmy Conlin
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Ida Moore
USA
Best movies:
The Country Girl (1954)
To Each His Own (1946)
Johnny Belinda (1948)
Rhys Williams
UK
Best movies:
Gentleman Jim (1942)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Julius Caesar (1953)
Buddy Roosevelt
USA
Best movies:
Storm Warning (1951)
Captain Blood (1935)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
Nestor Paiva
USA
Best movies:
The Sea Hawk (1940)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Midnight (1939)
Joan Vohs
USA
Best movies:
Sabrina (1954)
It's a Great Feeling (1949)
Wedding Bells (1951)
Barbara Pepper
USA
Best movies:
My Fair Lady (1964)
Of Mice and Men (1939)
A Child Is Waiting (1963)