Boxoffice International Pictures, Inc. was a film distributor owned by Harry Novak, who later used the alternate name Harry Novak Productions. It ceased operations in 2005.
Background
Harry Novak was born in Chicago in 1928, and began working for RKO Pictures when he was a teenager. He started out by distributing posters and lobby cards to film exhibitors. He then enlisted in the Army, and after leaving the service, he returned to the company, which was now controlled by Howard Hughes. In his new position, he advanced to booking and selling films and designing ads.[1][2]
In the 1960s, he started Boxoffice International Pictures. His films were mostly soft-core sexploitation, and featured rural settings and cornpone humor. He recycled the old stereotypes like the traveling salesman and the farmer's daughter; the city girl who goes wild after her first taste of moonshine; into sex comedies that "pandered to bumpkin clichés". The simulated sex portrayed in his films was poorly staged and photographed. In 1964, he used the pseudonym Seymour Tuchus and made the film "Dr Breedlove", a spoof of The Bride of Frankenstein and Dr Strangelove. The movie was a quick turnaround, he shot it in just six days. To avoid a lawsuit from Stanley Kubrick, he was forced to quickly rename it to Kiss Me Quick! .[1][2]
Selected fimography
When I was a kid, my daddy told me, 'There's a buyer for everything,' and I lived to find out that he was right.[2]
