The PYX
Year:
1973
Production Country:
Canada (Quebec)
The pyx is a container for carrying the host used to celebrate the mass. A Montreal detective tries to unravel the mysterious death of a call girl who fell/jumped/was pushed from a high-rise penthouse with a pyx in her hand.
Cast & credits
Cast
- Elizabeth Lucy Karen Black
- Detective Sgt Jim Henderson Christopher Plummer
- Detective Sgt Pierre Paquette Donald Pilon
- Keerson Jean-Louis Roux
- Meg Yvette Brind'amour
- superintendent Jacques Godin
- Jimmy Terry Haig
- Herbie Lefram Lee Broker
- Worther Robin Gammell
- cast member Gerard Parkes
- Sandra Louise Rinfret
- cast member Julie Wildman
- cast member Jean-Louis Paris
- cast member Wally Martin
- cast member Gerard Richard
- cast member Francine Moran
- cast member Thérèse Morange
- cast member Henry Gamer
- cast member Jean Dubost
- cast member Jean-Guy Dubuc
- cast member Pierre Jolicoeur
- cast member Gilles Desormeaux
- cast member Jacques Galipeal
- cast member Petronella Van Duk
- cast member John Sullivan
- cast member Laurence Luczko
- cast member Bob Wyngaert
- cast member Pierre-Paul Bélisle
- cast member Charlie Beauchamp
- cast member Brian R. Erb
- cast member Robert Viens
- cast member Robert Beaulieu
- cast member Marcel Fournier
Credits
Direction
- Director Harvey Hart
- 1st Assistant Director Arnie Gelbart
- Assistant Director Mark Bourgault
- Assistant Director Samuel Wendel
- Continuity Tatiana Mihailoff
Production
- Production Company Host Productions Québec Ltd
- Production Company Rohar
- Produced with the co-operation of Canadian Film Development Corporation
- And the assistance of Royal Bank of Canada
- Executive Producer Maxine Samuels
- Producer Julian Roffman
- Associate Producer Paulle Clarke
- Production Supervisor Tolly Reviv
- Location Manager Minou Petrowski
- Production Consultant Willard Goodman
- [Production Assistant] Don Carmody
Casting
- Casting Ian De Voy
Writing
- Screenplay Robert Schlitt
- Based on the novel by John Buell
Photography
- Director of Photography René Verzier
Editing
- Film Editor Ron Wisman
Design
- Production Designer Earl Preston
Costumes
- Costume Designer Estelle Leiter
Make-up
- Supervisor of Make-up Julia Grundy
- Hairstyles Created by Pierre Taylor
Music
- Music Composer Harry Freedman
- Songs composed and sung by Karen Black
- Music Director Victor Feldbrill
- Conductor Victor Feldbrill
- Choir Conductor Giles Bryant
- Music Consultant Bob Johnston
Sound
- Location Sound mixer Richard Lightstone
- Boom Man Norman Mercier
- Sound Mixer Paul Coombe
- Sound Editor John Kelly
Consultant
- Technical Consultant Pierre Sangollo
- Technical Consultant Jean Guy Dubuc