title: The Busy Body (film)
text: # 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
  