Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

Strange angel. Season one [videorecording (DVD)].

CBS DVD/Paramount, 2020.

DVD STR Season 1 TV

Parsons, Jack, 1914-1952 -- Drama.

Occultists -- United States -- Biography -- Drama.

Aeronautical engineers -- United States -- Biography -- Drama.

Cults -- Drama.

[videorecording (DVD)].

3 videodiscs (498 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

"Based on the biography of Thelemic magician and scientist 'Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons' by George Pendle."--Wikipedia.

Contains all 10 episodes from the historical period drama TV seires originally broadcast on CBS All Access June 14-August 16, 2018.

"DVD Video Disc DVD-R Format."—Container.

Created by Mark Heyman ; produced by David DiGilio, Mary Heyman, Ridley Scott ; written by Mark Heyman, John Lopez, Dagny Looper ; directed by Ben Wheatley, David Lowery, Kate Dennis.

Jack Reynor, Bella Heathcote, Peter Mark Kendall, Greg Wise, Rupert Friend and Rade Šerbedžija.

"Jack Parsons, the subject of CBS All Access' new biographical drama series Strange Angel, doesn't seem like a real guy. If a writer made him up, he'd seem like he had too much going on. But it's true: Parsons was a brilliant rocket scientist who made pioneering contributions to the then-burgeoning field of jet propulsion in the '30s and '40s, helping make what was then almost science fiction into reality. He was also an occultist who led the Los Angeles chapter of a mystical religion/black magick sex cult called Thelema and whose personal life was as complicated as the chemical equations he solved. Strange Angel starts at the beginning of Parsons' ascent into the heavens and descent into the underworld. It's September 1938, and Parsons (Jack Reynor) is a frustrated young aspiring scientist who's trying to get the California Institute of Technology to take his ideas seriously. Meanwhile, his peculiar new neighbor Ernest Donovan (Rupert Friend) is trying to get Jack and his wife Susan (Bella Heathcote) to take his ideas seriously -- ideas like "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law," which is the guiding principle of Thelema, the occult belief system created by Aleister Crowley, 'the wickedest man in the world.'"--Container.

Mystery television programs.

Biographical television programs.

Historical television programs.

Internet television series.

Heyman, Mark, 1979-

Reynor, Jack, 1992-

Heathcote, Isabella, 1987-

Kendall, Peter Mark.

Wise, Greg, 1966-

Friend, Rupert.

Šerbedžija, Rade, 1946-

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal