Devil in a Blue Dress

Sep 29, 1995

1h 42m

★ 6.5

Private detective Easy Rawlins has been caught on the wrong side of the most dangerous secret in town.

Overview

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.

Genres

Thriller

Crime

Mystery

Production Companies

Mundy Lane Entertainment

TriStar Pictures

Clinica Estetico

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Cast

Easy Rawlins

Denzel Washington

DeWitt Albright

Tom Sizemore

Daphne Monet

Jennifer Beals

Mouse Alexander

Don Cheadle

Matthew Terell

Maury Chaykin

Todd Carter

Terry Kinney

Joppy

Mel Winkler

Degan Odell

Albert Hall

Coretta James

Lisa Nicole Carson

Dupree Brouchard

Jernard Burks

Junior Fornay

David Fonteno

Mason

John Roselius

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