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Devil in a Blue Dress

Cast

Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, Don Cheadle View All

Crew

Carl Franklin (Screenplay), Carl Franklin (Director) View All

Release: Sep. 15th, 1995

Runtime: 1 hour, 42 minutes

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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Torgo
As it goes in the best mysteries, Early becomes just as suspicious about his employer (Tom Sizemore) and friends who suggested him for the job as he is about the circumstances of Daphne's disappearance.

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Gideon58
Director and screenwriter Carl Franklin (One False Move) has mounted a stunning recreation of 1940's Los Angeles that owes a lot to films like The Maltese Falcon and Chinatown, but this story is given a unique flavor with a central character who is African American, which is consistently addressed t....