Devil in a Blue Dress

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Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

R 09/15/1995 (US) Thriller, Crime, Drama, Mystery 1h 42m

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Private detective Easy Rawlins has been caught on the wrong side of the most dangerous secret in town.

Overview

In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.

Carl Franklin

Director, Screenplay
Walter Mosley

Novel

Top Billed Cast

Denzel Washington

Easy Rawlins
Tom Sizemore

DeWitt Albright
Jennifer Beals

Daphne Monet
Don Cheadle

Mouse Alexander
Maury Chaykin

Matthew Terell
Terry Kinney

Todd Carter
Mel Winkler

Joppy
Albert Hall

Degan Odell
Lisa Nicole Carson

Coretta James
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A review by John Chard

7.5

Written by John Chard on November 20, 2015

Everyone was peeing on my head and telling me it's raining.

Devil in a Blue Dress is written and directed by Carl Franklin, who adapts from the book written by Walter Mosley. It stars Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, Don Cheadle and Maury Chaykin. Music is by Elmer Bernstein and cinematography by Tak Fujimoto.

Carl Franklin had already laid down a considerable neo-noir marker with his searing 1992 thriller One False Move, here he goes more traditional but garners equally impressive results. Plot has Washington as a WW2 veteran who has lost his job and desperately needs mon... read the rest.

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