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Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1995 American neo-noir mystery thriller film written and directed by Carl Franklin, based on Walter Mosley's 1990 novel of the same name and features Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, and Don Cheadle.
Sep 29, 1995 · Devil in a Blue Dress: Directed by Carl Franklin. With Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, Don Cheadle. A Black war hero is hired to find a mysterious woman, and gets mixed up in a murderous political scandal in 1948 Los Angeles.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Carl Franklin
- 1995-09-29
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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- Carl Franklin
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- Denzel Washington
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.
Aug 6, 2022 · One of the all-time great underrated films of the '90s, "Devil in a Blue Dress" helped make Denzel Washington a star. We look back on the film's details.
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.
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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.
