Harry Novak

Harry H. Novak (12 January 1928 - 26 March 2014, Los Angeles) was an American producer and distributor known as the sexploitation king. He began his career in films at RKO during Howard Hughes' ownership of the studio, and was rumoured to have been the last employee to leave the lot when RKO collapsed in 1957. From the early 1960s to the mid-1970s he produced and distributed a prolific number of exploitation films, including William Rotsler's The Agony of Love and Mantis in Lace and the influential monster nudie Kiss Me Quick! (1964). He later launched his own mini-studio on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles.