Down on Us
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| Down on Us | |
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 Teaser poster | |
| Directed by | Larry Buchanan |
| Produced by | Murray M. Kaplan Larry Buchanan |
| Starring | Gregory Allen Chatman as Jimi Hendrix Riba Meryl as Janis Joplin Bryan Wolf as Jim Morrison |
| Cinematography | Nicholas Josef von Sternberg |
| Edited by | Larry Randolph |
| Music by | Jeffrey Dann David Shorey |
| Distributed by | Omni Leisure International |
Release date | 1984 |
Running time | 117 min minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Down on Us is a low budget 1984 movie about the United States government's plot to assassinate 1960's rock stars, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix, using an elite force of killers. It is sometimes known as Beyond the Doors.
The movie does not use any of the original songs of the artists portrayed due to high royalty fees. Instead, they used songs written to sound like the originals.
Author F. Paul Wilson used a similar premise in his 1987 short story "The Years the Music Died."
Tag Line
The story of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Janis Joplin, and how their message for their generation made them targets of a US government plot.
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