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...Inspector General (Warner) is a Danny Kaye comedy based-a long way off base-on Nicolay Gogol's satiric Russian classic about the impostor who helps some corrupt officials outsmart themselves. Watered down and gagged up as it is, Gogol's idea is still engaging, and Comic Kaye is man enough to make even thin material look nervously good...
...bouffe Dogpatch in central Europe, in Napoleonic times. Kaye is not the knave of Gogol's play but a good-hearted rube. A half-starved outcast from a medicine show, he is mistaken by the crooked mayor (Gene Lockhart) and his henchmen-relatives for Napoleon's feared inspector general traveling incognito. Then, hardly grown into his splendid Techncolored uniform and the hungry affections of the mayor's wife (Elsa Lanchester), Kaye becomes a cat's-paw and fall guy for the scoundrelly medicine-show boss (Walter Slezak...
Danny Kaye, according to Howard Barnes in Sunday's Herald Tribune, is the first real comedian to reach the screen since W. C. Fields in "Million Dollar Legs." More specifically, Barnes said Kaye has just arrived at the peak of his career in "The Inspector General...
This is a dubious assertion. "The Inspector General" is a good technicolor musical but it is no comedy masterpiece...
...Louis Salve and his sidekick Gaston Lange, who had been a police inspector before the war, the postwar world looked bright indeed. When they dropped into their favorite cafe in the Rue Sorbier, the patron broke out the tricolor as a sign that Heroes of the Resistance were having a drink in his humble place. Lange and Salve spent a lot of time in the courts, where they were recognized as authorities on who had been a collaborator and who had not: again & again Lange and Salve testified that suspected traitors had in fact served with them in the Resistance...