The Busy Body (film)

The Busy Body
film poster by Frank Frazetta
Directed by	William Castle
Written by	Donald E. Westlake Ben Starr
Produced by	William Castle
Starring	Dom DeLuise Sid Caesar Robert Ryan
Cinematography	Harold E. Stine
Edited by	Edwin H. Bryant
Music by	Vic Mizzy
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	March 12, 1967 (1967-03-12)
Running time	101 minutes
Language	English

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.

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

See also

• List of American films of 1967

External links

• The Busy Body at IMDb
• The Busy Body at Rotten Tomatoes