Denzel Washington
Ezekiel 'Easy' Rawlins
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At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright (Tom Sizemore), a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet (Jennifer Beals), who ...
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Sep 29, 1995 · Devil In A Blue Dress. Los Angeles, 1948. All Easy Rawlins really wants to do is make the mortgage payments on his house. But he's been laid off at the aircraft factory, unfairly, and for a black man in Southern California, the good jobs of the boom war years are disappearing.
A Black war hero is hired to find a mysterious woman, and gets mixed up in a murderous political scandal in 1948 Los Angeles. It is 1948 in LA and Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, an African-American World War II veteran, is looking for work. At his friend's bar, he is introduced to a white man, DeWitt Albright, who is looking for someone to help him ...
Devil in a Blue Dress. Denzel Washington stars as Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, a decorated war hero who returns home to the segregation of post-war America. Forced to accept an under-the-table job finding a missing socialite, Easy is caught between the white power elite and the vibrant black community of Central Avenue.
The bone-deep disillusionment of postwar film noir becomes a powerful vehicle to explore America’s racial injustices in Carl Franklin’s richly atmospheric Devil in a Blue Dress, an adaptation of the hard-boiled novel by Walter Mosley.
In 1948 Los Angeles, a stranger asks war veteran "Easy" Rawlins to help locate a missing woman — a task that gets him embroiled in a murder mystery. Watch trailers & learn more.
Apr 20, 2006 · Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) - Turner Classic Movies. Overview. Synopsis. Credits. Photos & Videos. Film Details. Articles & Reviews. Notes. Brief Synopsis. It's 1948 and Los Angeles is booming, but Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins has seen better days. Cast & Crew. Read More. Carl Franklin. Director. Denzel Washington. Tom Sizemore. Don Cheadle.
