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A neo-noir mystery thriller based on Walter Mosley's novel, starring Denzel Washington as a black P.I. in 1948 Los Angeles. He gets involved in a search for a missing white woman and a scandal involving a mayoral candidate and his family.
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
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.
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.
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.
- Walter Mosley
- 1990
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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- Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
- R
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.
