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Down on Us
Teaser posterDirected by Larry Buchanan Produced by Murray M. Kaplan
Larry BuchananStarring Gregory Allen Chatman as Jimi Hendrix
Riba Meryl as Janis Joplin
Bryan Wolf as Jim MorrisonMusic by Jeffrey Dann
David ShoreyCinematography Nicholas Josef von Sternberg Editing by Larry Randolph Distributed by Omni Leisure International Release date(s) 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.
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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Films directed by Larry Buchanan 1950s The Cowboy (short) (1951) · Grubstake (1952)1960s The Naked Witch (1961) · Common Law Wife (1963) · Free, White and 21 (1963) · Naughty Dallas (1964) · Under Age (1964) · The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1964) · The Eye Creatures (1965) · High Yellow (1965) · Zontar, The Thing from Venus (1966) · Curse of the Swamp Creature (1966) · Sam (1967) · Mars Needs Women (1967) · In the Year 2889 (1967) · Creature of Destruction (1967) · Hell Raiders (1968) · Comanche Crossing (1968) · The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde (1968) · 'It's Alive!' (1969)1970s Strawberries Need Rain (1970) · A Bullet for Pretty Boy (1970) · Goodbye, Norma Jean (1976) · Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell (1978) · Mistress of the Apes (1979)1980s The Loch Ness Horror (1981) · Down on Us (1984) · Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn (1989)2000s The Copper Scroll of Mary Magdalene (2004)Categories:- English-language films
- 1984 films
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