The Busy Body (film)

The Busy Body
Directed byWilliam Castle
Screenplay byBen Starr
Based onnovel by Donald E. Westlake
Produced byWilliam Castle
StarringSid 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
CinematographyHarold E. Stine
Edited byEdwin H. Bryant
Music byVic Mizzy
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • March 12, 1967 (1967-03-12)
Running time
101 minutes
LanguageEnglish

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]

  1. ^ "'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.
  2. ^ 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.