The Inspector General Page #2

Synopsis: 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.
Director(s): Henry Koster
Production: Warner Bros.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
APPROVED
Year:
1949
102 min
374 Views


He gives the elixsir full credit for the victory.

For years I've suffered terrible

digestive depress."

However since taking Yakov's

mircle elilxsir, I no longer find it

necessary to.....

continuously hold my hand on my

stomach."

Kindest personal regards:

Napoleon."

But why do I tell you these things

my friends when there is someone here....

a sufferer on whom I've looked with

compassion when he lay on death's door.

Unable to move a muscle.

Paralyzed!

Friend, are you aware that you are

losing your hair?

Do you need money? Have you

been on a diet?

Are you bothered by quiet?

Quiet.....QUIET!

Nice dancer that fellow.

Do you get colds, or prickly heat, a

burning brow, blazing feet, a

leaping pulse...

or Hic-cups? Do you get Hic-cup?

A touch of laryngitis, asthama, or

appendincitis, or hic-cups......

or hic......cups.

Or measles, a diagnosis of

phycosis...

Have you ever been short of breath?

Well, cheer up, cheer up, cheer up.

No matter how bad your condition.

I have news that will tickle your ears.

- I was dead.

- Dead?

Well, pretty sick.

Til I saw a famous physician, who

hadn't seen a patient in years.

He was near-sighted.

He said, hello young man, you are

possibly the plumber.

I'm a patient Dr. Hummer. Dr.

Hummer said, hhhhmmmmmm.

Dr. Hummer said hmmmmm, with a

C. Dr. Cinger. Dr. Cinger said

aaaaaahhh.

You have something with your nose

and something with your sneezes.

Tell me young man.

You've had some diseases? Have I had.....

When I was one I had a.....

When I was two I had a..

When I was three I had..

By the time I was four...

When I was six I had a....

At seven I developed...

When I was eight I got a....

By the time I was nine....

Doctor, why am I always so tired?

Doctor Cinger said

aaaaaaaaahhhhh.

And gave me the following

perscription.

Zalaminhalticnol, twice a day.

Since that day I haven't been sick

sir. And that medicine did the trick

sir. What was it, don't ask me.

I'll tell you.

Yakov's Golden Elixsir.

Come my friends. Who will be the

first to buy Yakov's Elixsir?

I have 12 pennies. My husband is

sick. Maybe if he had your

medicine, he'd get well.

Go away please. Will you take one here?

Sell it to her. Why, I did very well I

sold three. Ooooohhhh.

Here you go mother. What ever is

wrong with your husband, he is now cured.

All right ladies and gentlemen, here

it is. The most wonderful, the most

miraclous all cure. The Golden Elixsir.

- Mother, I'll give you your pennies,

give me back the medicine. - No!

- The medicine is no good.

- It's for my husband. He needs it, he's sick.

I know and this will fi nish him off.

Take the pennies and buy milk. It

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Philip Rapp

Philip Rapp (March 26, 1907 – January 23, 1996) was a film and television director and screenwriter. He wrote for Eddie Cantor and for a brief period, wrote film scripts for Danny Kaye. Rapp is perhaps best known as the creator of Baby Snooks and The Bickersons. Rapp died on January 23, 1996 in Beverly Hills, California. more…

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