Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Private detective Easy Rawlins has been caught on the wrong side of the most dangerous secret in town.
Director: Carl Franklin · Writer: Carl Franklin
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.
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Director
Carl Franklin
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 
Jernard Burks
Dupree Brouchard 
David Fonteno
Junior Fornay 
John Roselius
Mason User Reviews (1)
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 money to keep hold of his pride and joy - his house. Taking on a job offered by shifty DeWitt Albright (Sizemore), to find a missing woman, Rawlings quickly finds himself in up to his neck in murder and deception, he must turn ace detective to save his skin. Set in late 1940s Los Angeles, what inst…
