The Busy Body (film)
The Busy Body is a 1967 American comedy film directed and produced by William Castle and based on Donald E. Westlake's novel of the same name. It was Richard Pryor's film debut.
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| Directed by | William Castle |
| Produced by | William Castle |
| Written by | Donald E. Westlake Ben Starr |
| Starring | Dom DeLuise Sid Caesar Robert Ryan |
| Music by | Vic Mizzy |
| Cinematography | Harold E. Stine |
| Edited by | Edwin H. Bryant |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
| Language | English |
Plot
George Norton is a low-level bumbler who works for Chicago crime boss Charley Barker. A well-dressed mama's boy, George is in good standing with Barker, even gaining a promotion, until an incident that costs the mob a million dollars.
George is indirectly responsible when Archie, a mob courier, is killed at a barbecue. After the funeral, Barker instructs George to dig up Archie's body because $500,000 was stuffed inside the lining of each side of a blue suit that an unwitting George personally chose for the burial.
George opens the casket to find it empty, then later occupied by a different corpse. He sets out to retrieve the body and the money before Barker gets angry enough to arrange a funeral for HIM.
Cast
- Sid Caesar as George
- Robert Ryan as Charley
- Anne Baxter as Margo
- Kay Medford as Ma Norton
- Jan Murray as Murray
- Richard Pryor as Lt. Whitaker
- Dom DeLuise as Kurt
- Godfrey Cambridge as Mike
- Bill Dana as Archie
- Arlene Golonka as Bobbi
- Charles McGraw as Fred Harwell
- Ben Blue as Felix Rose
- Paul Wexler as Mr. Merriwether
- Don Brodie as Board Member