Jim Morrison Is Alive and Acting in new Doors doc!
Rare footage from a Jim Morrison-directed film -- starring the Doors frontman himself, as an ominous hitchhiker -- has been incorporated into the new "When You're Strange" Doors documentary narrated by Johnny Depp.
In a spooky and powerful way, Jim Morrison – the long-dead lead singer of the Sixties rock phenom The Doors – comes alive in the new documentary, When You're Strange. Director Tom DiCillo incorporates footage from an experimental film that Morrison -- a UCLA film major -- shot in 1969. Called HWY, and starring Morrison as a sinister hitchhiker thumbing his way across a So-Cal desert, the film looks like it was made yesterday: sun-burnished 35mm camera work, cool vintage cars (a black Sixties Mustang), and Morrison, lean and bearded, in retro-cool tie-dye.