The Busy Body (film)
1967 film by William Castle
- March 12, 1967 (1967-03-12)
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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]
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
See also
References
- ^ "'Warning Shot' and 'The Busy Body'". The New York Times. 8 June 1967. Archived from the original on 24 June 2024. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- ^ quint (6 November 2008). "A Movie A Day: Quint on THE BUSY BODY (1967): You guys are going to learn class or I'm gonna kick your teeth in!". Ain't It Cool News. Archived from the original on 22 September 2021. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
External links
- The Busy Body at IMDb
- The Busy Body at Rotten Tomatoes
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Films directed by William Castle
- Black Marketing (1943 short)
- The Chance of a Lifetime (1943)
- Klondike Kate (1943)
- The Whistler (1944)
- She's a Soldier Too (1944)
- When Strangers Marry (1944)
- The Mark of the Whistler (1945)
- Crime Doctor's Warning (1945)
- Voice of the Whistler (1945)
- Just Before Dawn (1946)
- Mysterious Intruder (1946)
- The Return of Rusty (1946)
- The Crime Doctor's Gamble (1947)
- Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven (1948)
- Crime Doctor's Man Hunt (1948)
- The Gentleman from Nowhere (1948)
- Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)
- Undertow (1949)
- It's a Small World (1950)
- The Fat Man (1951)
- Hollywood Story (1951)
- Cave of Outlaws (1951)
- Serpent of the Nile (1953)
- Fort Ti (1953)
- Conquest of Cochise (1953)
- Slaves of Babylon (1953)
- Charge of the Lancers (1954)
- The Battle of Rogue River (1954)
- Jesse James vs. the Daltons (1954)
- The Iron Glove (1954)
- Drums of Tahiti (1954)
- The Saracen Blade (1954)
- The Law vs. Billy the Kid (1954)
- Masterson of Kansas (1954)
- The Americano (1955)
- New Orleans Uncensored (1955)
- The Gun That Won the West (1955)
- Duel on the Mississippi (1955)
- The Houston Story (1956)
- Uranium Boom (1956)
- Macabre (1958)
- House on Haunted Hill (1959)
- The Tingler (1959)
- 13 Ghosts (1960)
- Homicidal (1961)
- Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
- Zotz! (1962)
- 13 Frightened Girls (1963)
- The Old Dark House (1963)
- Strait-Jacket (1964)
- The Night Walker (1964)
- I Saw What You Did (1965)
- Let's Kill Uncle (1966)
- The Busy Body (1967)
- The Spirit Is Willing (1967)
- Project X (1968)
- Shanks (1974)
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