Devil in a Blue Dress

1995·101'

Carl Franklin

United States

★ 6.5

Letterboxd TMDB #8512

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

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.

Cast

Denzel Washington Easy Rawlins

Tom Sizemore DeWitt Albright

Jennifer Beals Daphne Monet

Don Cheadle Mouse Alexander

Maury Chaykin Matthew Terell

Terry Kinney Todd Carter

Mel Winkler Joppy

Albert Hall Degan Odell

Lisa Nicole Carson Coretta James

Jernard Burks Dupree Brouchard

David Fonteno Junior Fornay

John Roselius Mason