| Boxoffice International Pictures, Inc. | |
| Fate: | Ceased operations |
| Type: | Film company |
| Location: | Los Angeles, California |
| Key People: | Harry Novak |
| Industry: | Motion pictures |
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.
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]
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! .[2]
| Title | Year | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lisa, Lisa | 1977 | Frederick R. Friedel | [3] |
| The Child | 1977 | Robert Voskanian | [4] |
| Rattlers | 1976 | John McCauley | |
| Tanya | 1976 | Nate Rodgers | |
| Dr. Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks | 1974 | Dick Randall | [5] |
| Tower of Love | 1974 | George Drazich | [6] |
| The Sinful Dwarf | 1973 | Vidal Raski | [7] |
| Sassy Sue | 1973 | Bethel Buckalew | |
| Please Don't Eat My Mother! | 1973 | Carl Monson | |
| A Scream in the Streets | 1973 | Carl Monson | |
| Toys Are Not for Children | 1972 | Stanley H. Brassloff | [8] |
| Requiem for a Vampire | 1971 | Jean Rollin | |
| The Dark Side of Tomorrow | 1970 | Jack Deerson, Barbara Peeters | |
| A Girl Called Jules | 1970 | Tonino Valerii | |
| The Nude Vampire | 1970 | Jean Rollin | |
| Sinkhole | 1970 | Toshio Okuwaki | |
| Booby Trap | 1970 | Dwayne Avery | |
| Two Thousand Weeks | 1969 | Tim Burstall | |
| Any Body...Any Way | 1968 | Charles Romine | |
| The Muthers | 1968 | Donald A. Davis | |
| Venus in Furs | 1967 | Joseph Marzano | |
| The Girl with the Hungry Eyes | 1967 | William Rotsler | [9] |
| Kiss Me Quick! | 1964 | Peter Perry Jr.[10] | |
1.Titles listed in common English title.
2.Directors listed with given names, ignoring pseudonyms and misspelled credits.