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'''Howco'' |
'''Howco Productions''' later '''Howco International Pictures''', was an American film production and distribution company based in [[South Carolina]], specialising in low budget [[B pictures]] designed for [[double feature]]s. |
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In 1951 Joy Newton Houck Sr. (born 10 July 1900, [[Magnolia, Arkansas]] died 8 July 1999, [[Texarkana, Texas]]), owner of 29 Joy Theatres in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, teamed up with producer/director [[Ron Ormond]] and J. Francis White, owner of 31 cinemas in Virginia, North and South Carolina, to contract with independent film producers to create product for their combined theatre chains.<ref>p.72 Heffernan, Kevin ''Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business'' Duke University Press</ref> Their initials, "H, O, W," provided the name of the company. |
In 1951 Joy Newton Houck Sr. (born 10 July 1900, [[Magnolia, Arkansas]] died 8 July 1999, [[Texarkana, Texas]]), owner of 29 Joy Theatres in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, teamed up with producer/director [[Ron Ormond]] and J. Francis White, owner of 31 cinemas in Virginia, North and South Carolina, to contract with independent film producers to create product for their combined theatre chains.<ref>p.72 Heffernan, Kevin ''Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business'' Duke University Press</ref> Their initials, "H, O, W," provided the name of the company. |
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| Company type | Corporation |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1951 |
| Founder | Joy Newton Houck Sr. J. Francis White |
| Headquarters | New Orleans, USA |
| Owner | independent |
Howco Productions later Howco International Pictures, was an American film production and distribution company based in South Carolina, specialising in low budget B pictures designed for double features.
In 1951 Joy Newton Houck Sr. (born 10 July 1900, Magnolia, Arkansas died 8 July 1999, Texarkana, Texas), owner of 29 Joy Theatres in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, teamed up with producer/director Ron Ormond and J. Francis White, owner of 31 cinemas in Virginia, North and South Carolina, to contract with independent film producers to create product for their combined theatre chains.[1] Their initials, "H, O, W," provided the name of the company.
Initially Howco released Westerns from Ron Ormond's company featuring Lash LaRue, then moved into monster, science fiction and exploitation films. In 1954 Howco started a television distribution company called National Television Films.[2] Howco released Roger Corman's Carnival Rock (paired with Teenage Thunder), Ed Wood's Jail Bait (paired with The Blonde Pickup, a reissue of 1951's Racket Girls), double features such as The Brain from Planet Arous and Teenage Monster (1957), and Lost, Lonely and Vicious and My World Dies Screaming (1958). Houck Sr.'s son Joy N. Houck Jr. directed two of the company's final double bills, Night of Bloody Horror and Women and Bloody Terror (1970).[3]
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