Down on Us (1984)
1h 57m
Running Time
September 7, 1984Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Riba Meryl
Janis Joplin
Sandy Kenyon
Alex Stanley
Bryan Wolf
Jim Morrison
Toni Sawyer
Mrs. Stanley
Steven Tice
Frank Stanley
Susanne Barnes
She
Larry Buchanan
Director
Karen Mayo-Chandler
Sue Rigg
Nicholas Josef von Sternberg
Cinematographer
Richard Kennedy
Hoover
Jennifer Wilde
Ellen
Gregory Allen Chatman
Jimi Hendrix
Dan Priest
Limo Driver
David DeShay
Al Long
Stuart Lancaster
New York Cabbie
Sallee Young
Newswoman
Details.
Wiki.
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 to sound like the originals.
Author F. Paul Wilson used a similar premise in his 1987 short story "The Years the Music Died."