Rock Poet: Jim Morrison

Jon Brewer
2010-07-18


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Jim Morrison considered himself first a Poet, and subsequently a Rock Star and sex symbol. “ROCK POET” tells his story. He was far more than the hell-raiser, infamous for his arrest in Miami for exposing himself on stage, another rock casualty- dead by the age of just 27. “Classic Artists” meets with legendary Beat Poets Michael Horovitz, Michael McClure, Pete Brown of “Cream” fame, about the movement and what it meant to the burgeoning tide of Rock and Roll, more specifically, to Jim Morrison, and finds the admiration and respect for his talent as a poet and writer amongst his Beat Poet predecessors and also contemporaries to be unquestionable. This film includes revelations from those that were present in the final days and final hours of Jim Morrison, including an eye witness . A vigorously captivating insight of a time in rock history , a time in the life of the man, both rock star and poet.

Cast

Name Character Team
Oliver Stone Self Unowned
Danny Sugarman Self Unowned
Duke Special Self Unowned
David Crosby Self Unowned
James Cushing Self Unowned
Henry Diltz Self Unowned
Ray Manzarek Self Unowned
Michael McClure Self Unowned