Richard Pryor is nobody’s toy.
- Scott Schwartz (who played Eric Bates) became a porn star later in life.
- In his E! True Hollywood Story bio, Scott Schwartz says that the hardest part of making this movie was working with Jackie Gleason. Because Schwartz was trained to memorize his lines, he would always get thrown off by Gleason's improvisations, resulting in his getting yelled at repeatedly by Gleason.
It’s a comedy about a megalomaniac millionaire (Jackie Gleason) who hires a broke writer (Richard Pryor) to be a human plaything for his son, the unfortunately named Master Bates.
Richard Pryor, Jackie Gleason, Ned Beatty, Scott Schwartz, Teresa Ganzel, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Annazette Chase
Richard Donner
