The Busy Body (film)
# 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.

## 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
* Marty Ingels as Willie
* George Jessel as Mr. Fessel
* Paul Wexler as Mr. Merriwether
* Don Brodie as Board Member
