Devil in A Blue Dress (1995)

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Rating: R

Release Date: Sep 29, 1995

Running Time: 102 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, Don Cheadle, Maury Chaykin, Terry Kinney, Mel Winkler, Albert Hall, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jernard Burks

director: Carl Franklin

Devil in a Blue Dress

It's 1948 and Los Angeles is booming, but Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins has seen better days. A decorated World War II veteran, he's just been fired and he's got house payments to make, so when he's offered a job locating the mysterious Daphne Monet, he doesn't waste much time saying yes. Now, he finds himself drawn into a web of murder, blackmail, brutal cops and city politics.

December 8, 2000

"Devil in a Blue Dress" is the whip-smart and sexy film version of Walter Mosley's acclaimed 1990 debut novel. Set in Los Angeles in 1948, Devil puts a spin on Chinatown to provide a black perspective on the layers of corruption that stretch from the streets to the corridors of power. Denzel Washington is flat-out perfection as Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, a private detective almost by accident. Easy, a decorated soldier from Houston, came to Los Angeles to share in the postwar boom. He didn't figure…