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Plot summary
John Brown lives in Riverton with his niece Penny and her beagle, Brain. He works as a security guard at the Bradford robotics laboratory but longs to be a police officer. Artemus Bradford and his daughter Brenda are developing a robotic foot for the Gadget Program, which aims to add android officers to the police force. A tycoon named Sanford Scolex breaks into the lab and steals the robotic foot. John chases Scolex, but his car flips and explodes. Scolex's left hand is crushed, and his associate Kramer fits him with a mechanical claw; he becomes Dr. Claw. Brenda rebuilds John as the first test subject of the Gadget Program, embedding gadgets throughout his body and giving him the alias Inspector Gadget. A chip powers him. With help from the Gadgetmobile, a robotic car, John begins testing his new abilities.
Cast
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- Bobby Bellas Famous Identifier of Sea Planes (as Robert N. Bell)
- Hank Barreraas Famous Native American Sidekick
- Keith Morrisonas Famous Assistant to Dr. Frankensomething
- John Kimas Son Before Second Son
- Jesse Yoshimuraas Bane of the Bumbling, Idiotic Yet Curiously Successful French Detective's Existence / Robobrendaerobics Group Member
- Aaron Meyersonas Aaron Meyerson
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Inspector Gadget (1999)
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- After a test screening, Disney cut Inspector Gadget down to 78 minutes from the 110-minute version that had been assembled, losing almost a third of the film.
- Inspector Gadget was the last film Caravan Pictures ever produced before the company merged into Spyglass Entertainment, and it was dedicated to production designer Michael White, who died in Los Angeles on 19 January 1999 at the age of 36 while the film was in production.
