The Busy Body
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Duration Language English | 5.8/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Screenplay Ben Starr | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date March 12, 1967 (1967-03-12) Cast (George Norton), (Charley Barker), (Ma Norton), Walt Davis (Bit Cop), (Margo Foster Kane), (Murray Foster)Similar movies Related William Castle movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Richard pryor in the busy body with sid caesar dom deluise
The Busy Body is a 1967 comedy film starring Sid Caesar as a member of a crime ring and Robert Ryan as his boss. It was directed and produced by William Castle and was the first film appearance for Richard Pryor.
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The movie was based on the novel of the same name by Donald E. Westlake.
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.
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References
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