Down on Us (1984)
September 7, 1984Release Date
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Cast & Crew.

Gregory Allen Chatman
Jimi Hendrix

Riba Meryl
Janis Joplin

Bryan Wolf
Jim Morrison

Steven Tice
Frank Stanley

Toni Sawyer
Mrs. Stanley

Jennifer Wilde
Ellen

Susanne Barnes
She

Karen Mayo-Chandler
Sue Rigg

David DeShay
Al Long

Richard Kennedy
Hoover

Dan Priest
Limo Driver

Stuart Lancaster
New York Cabbie

Sallee Young
Newswoman

Ernest Paul Roebuck
Road Manager

Marius Mazmanian
French Cop

Joe Tornatore
Disco Owner

Phyllis Durant
Christine

Harold Wayne Jones
Sullivan

Sandy Kenyon
Alex Stanley

Murray M. Kaplan
Executive Producer

Shay Austin
Art Direction

Larry Buchanan
Writer / Director / Producer

Nicholas Josef von Sternberg
Director of Photography

Al Ramirez
Sound Recordist
Details.
Release DateSeptember 7, 1984
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 57m
Content RatingR
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Down on Us is a low budget 1984 movie about a US government plot to assassinate 1960s 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 and performed to sound like the originals: Those artists were: Janet Stover as "Janis Joplin," David Shorey as "Jimi Hendrix," and Richard Bowen, he of the American International Pictures/Records recording artist, the Source (A Bullet for Pretty Boy), as "Jim Morrison" fronting the Doors. The film's ersatz, signature "Doors" tune, "Phantom in the Rain," was a 1984 solo remake of an old the Source single (1970) performed by Bowen. The starring actors lip-synced to the songs by Stover, Shorey, and Bowen.
Author F. Paul Wilson used a similar premise in his 1987 short story "The Years the Music Died."
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