The Busy Body | |
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Directed by | William Castle |
Written by |
Donald E. Westlake Ben Starr |
Produced by | William Castle |
Starring |
Sid Caesar Robert Ryan Anne Baxter Kay Medford Jan Murray Richard Pryor Arlene Golonka Ben Blue Dom DeLuise Bill Dana Godfrey Cambridge Marty Ingels George Jessel |
Cinematography | Harold E. Stine |
Edited by | Edwin H. Bryant |
Music by | Vic Mizzy |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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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. [1] It was Richard Pryor's film debut. [2]
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.