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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.
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.
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.
Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1990 hardboiled mystery novel by Walter Mosley, his first published book. The text centers on the main character, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins , and his transformation from a day laborer into a detective.
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. 1,558 IMDb 6.8 1 h 41 min 1995. X-Ray R. Suspense · Drama · Cerebral · Atmospheric. Free trial of STARZ, rent, or buy.
Synopsis. In the Summer of 1948 in Los Angeles, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins is laid off from his job at Champion Aircraft and needs money to pay his mortgage. Easy's bartender friend Joppy introduces him to DeWitt Albright, a white P.I. looking for a missing white woman, Daphne Monet.
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) -- (Movie Clip) My Name's Not Fella Evocative opening of 1948 South Los Angeles, we meet Denzel Washington as novelist Walter Mosley’s hero Easy Rawlins, unemployed veteran, Steve Randazzo as his ex-boss, in director Carl Franklin’s Devil In A Blue Dress, 1995.
