SW/4/CRO - Crowley
Reference code
SW/4/CRO
Level of description
File
Title
Crowley
Scope and content
Crowley is the film version of the book I, Crowley, also referred to as:
• 666 The Number of the Beast
• 666 The Beast, and
• The Beast
The film is based on the life of the magician and ‘cult figure’ Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). Simon Callow was to direct the film.
There is some overlap between Crowley (SW/4) and The Beast (SW/4).
For SW’s fictional autobiography I, Crowley: Almost the Beast’s Last Will and Testament 666 or I, Crowley: Almost the
Last Confession of the Beast 666, see SW/2/2.
[Crowley – correspondence and miscellaneous papers], 1989, 1998-2009
An extensive body of correspondence between SW and Matthew Thomas Nussbaum (Thomas Associates in the United States) as MTN tries to seek financial backing for the screenplay of Crowley (2000-2001).
Correspondence with production companies (including Parkwood Films, 1998) and actors (including Simon Callow, 1998).
Research material, synopses (2000), scenes shooting schedule (1998), scene drawings.
[Crowley – miscellaneous papers], 1994-2004 (mainly 2004)
Typescript by SW headed ‘Good ideas of the twentieth century’, February 1994.
Original watercolours of Crowley and imps by Dave Warren.
The Beast cast wish list, 22/4/98.
666 The Beast cast short list, undated.
Portrait photo of Cynthia Dane.
CD with Egyptian reference photographs.
Camerawork and filming quotation, undated.
The Abbey – ground plan sketch, undated.
Press-cutting review (10/7/04) on The Book of the Law (a book about Aleister Crowley), published by Samuel Weiser.
CD with one unidentified music track 5’26’’, 06/09/04.
Letter from Steve to SW, 30/10/04.
Email including list of film studios and producers, 25/11/04.
From Crowley with Love: The FBI files. (Pamphlet of published letters).
Flyer for the book published by Vivianne Crowley Phoenix from the Flame.
[Crowley – photograph album]
Photographs of Crowley, mainly copies from published works.
• 666 The Number of the Beast
• 666 The Beast, and
• The Beast
The film is based on the life of the magician and ‘cult figure’ Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). Simon Callow was to direct the film.
There is some overlap between Crowley (SW/4) and The Beast (SW/4).
For SW’s fictional autobiography I, Crowley: Almost the Beast’s Last Will and Testament 666 or I, Crowley: Almost the
Last Confession of the Beast 666, see SW/2/2.
[Crowley – correspondence and miscellaneous papers], 1989, 1998-2009
An extensive body of correspondence between SW and Matthew Thomas Nussbaum (Thomas Associates in the United States) as MTN tries to seek financial backing for the screenplay of Crowley (2000-2001).
Correspondence with production companies (including Parkwood Films, 1998) and actors (including Simon Callow, 1998).
Research material, synopses (2000), scenes shooting schedule (1998), scene drawings.
[Crowley – miscellaneous papers], 1994-2004 (mainly 2004)
Typescript by SW headed ‘Good ideas of the twentieth century’, February 1994.
Original watercolours of Crowley and imps by Dave Warren.
The Beast cast wish list, 22/4/98.
666 The Beast cast short list, undated.
Portrait photo of Cynthia Dane.
CD with Egyptian reference photographs.
Camerawork and filming quotation, undated.
The Abbey – ground plan sketch, undated.
Press-cutting review (10/7/04) on The Book of the Law (a book about Aleister Crowley), published by Samuel Weiser.
CD with one unidentified music track 5’26’’, 06/09/04.
Letter from Steve to SW, 30/10/04.
Email including list of film studios and producers, 25/11/04.
From Crowley with Love: The FBI files. (Pamphlet of published letters).
Flyer for the book published by Vivianne Crowley Phoenix from the Flame.
[Crowley – photograph album]
Photographs of Crowley, mainly copies from published works.
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