Devil in a Blue Dress

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

Sinopse

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.

6.5
1995
Released
1h 42m

Denzel Washington

Tom Sizemore

Jennifer Beals

Don Cheadle

Maury Chaykin

Terry Kinney

Mel Winkler

Albert Hall

Lisa Nicole Carson

Jernard Burks

David Fonteno

John Roselius

Beau Starr

Steven Randazzo

Scott Lincoln

L. Scott Caldwell

Barry Shabaka Henley

Nick Corello

Joseph Latimore

Renée Humphrey

R.J. Knoll

Kai Lennox

Poppy Montgomery

Brendan Kelly

Peggy Rea

Vinny Argiro

Deborah Lacey

Jeris Poindexter

Frank Davis

John David Washington

Boy with Toy Rifle (uncredited)

Trena Murphy

G. Smokey Campbell

Steve Sekely

J.D. Smith

Nigel Gibbs

Status

Released

Original Language

Budget

$27,000,000.00

Revenue

$16,140,822.00

Keywords

#based on novel or book
#war veteran
#jazz club
#murder
#los angeles, california
#biting
#private detective
#missing person
#framed for a crime
#aggressive
#neo-noir
#1940s
#complex
#egotistical

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7.4

Reviews

@John Chardabout 10 years ago

Everyone was peeing on my head and telling me it's raining. Devil in a Blue Dress is written and directed by Carl Franklin, who adapts from the book written by Walter Mosley. It stars Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, Don Cheadle and Maury Chaykin. Music is by Elmer Bernstein and cinematography by Tak Fujimoto. Carl Franklin had already laid down a considerable neo-noir marker