The Inspector General (1949)
Gene Lockhart: The Mayor
Quotes
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The Mayor : Your Excellency - he took bribes, he drank all my wine, he-he-he yelled out the windows, he even made love to my wife! How could... How could I doubt that he was an Inspector General?
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Gregor : The Inspector General. Yes, he has full power from the Emperor himself. And wherever he finds bribery and corruption, there the gallows and the firing squad go to work. More.
[the newly deposed Mayor of Klimenti is immediately given more wine to calm him]
The Mayor : What does he look like, this Inspector General?
Gregor : Who knows? A man of mystery. Five days he was in our midst and no one even suspected it. He went everywhere, saw everything, and uncovered such corruption that even I was shocked.
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The Mayor : The hospital - have you cleaned it up?
Lazlo : Well, you could eat off the floors. We put sheets on the bed, and we got the goats out of surgery. I put charts on the foot of each patient's bed indicating the nature of their illness.
The Mayor : Good. Now at least they'll know what they died from.
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Yakov : You'll regret this, you fat-faced village idiot!
The Mayor : What! You... you... How dare you!
Yakov : Keep your dirty hands off me, you misbegotten peasants!
The Mayor : Tie him up!
Yakov : The Emperor will tear this stinking village down over your ears, you thieving lard-bucket! Heads will roll here like marbles - yours first, and then this flea-ridden sack of nothing you call the Inspector General!
Inspector General : Oh! Why, he's insane! Take him away! Take him away!
Yakov : This isn't the Inspector General! Don't make me laugh! The great Emperor wouldn't appoint a thing like this to a post of such importance! THIS is your Inspector General! Here! His carriage, his manner, his bearing. Gentlemen, take your choice.
