45 years ago, in the summer of 1969, Jim Morrison shot his experimental film HWY in Los Angeles and in the Mojave Desert. Morrison had hitchhiked hundreds of miles in his younger days as a college student and the thumbs-up locomotion of the protagonist (played by Morrison) at the center of HWY finds the director/actor in familiar territory — waiting by the side of the titular roadway, taking a dip in a desert lake, walking alone, catching a ride and eventually making a phone call to a friend where he reveals the dark secret at the movie’s core.

Here’s HWY…

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