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Release Date: 1995 Cast: Mel Winkler, Albert Hall, Lisa Nicole Carson, Don Cheadle, Poppy Montgomery, Matthew Barry, Tom Sizemore, Jernard Burks, Denzel Washington, Jennifer Beals, Peggy Rea, Terry Kinney ...MORE
Cast: Mel Winkler, Albert Hall, Lisa Nicole Carson, Don Cheadle, Poppy Montgomery, Matthew Barry, Tom Sizemore, Jernard Burks, Denzel Washington, Jennifer Beals, Peggy Rea, Terry Kinney, Maury Chaykin ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Thriller, Detective fiction, Detective, Mystery, Period piece, Film adaptation, Crime Thriller, Neo-noir Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1995 American neo-noir film directed by Carl Franklin and photographed by Tak Fujimoto.
The film was based on Walter Mosley's novel of the same name, was executive produced by Jonathan Demme, and starred Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, and Don Cheadle.
In 1948 Los Angeles, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins is a World War II veteran who has been unfairly laid off at a air craft manufacturer, Champion Aircraft. He becomes a private investigator to pay the mortgage, despite having no training.
The film begins in noir fashion when Easy Rawlins (Denzel... MORE
Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1995 American neo-noir film directed by Carl Franklin and photographed by Tak Fujimoto.
The film was based on Walter Mosley's novel of the same name, was executive produced by Jonathan Demme, and starred Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, and Don Cheadle.
In 1948 Los Angeles, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins is a World War II veteran who has been unfairly laid off at a air craft manufacturer, Champion Aircraft. He becomes a private investigator to pay the mortgage, despite having no training.
The film begins in noir fashion when Easy Rawlins (Denzel Washington) says "A man once told me that when you step out of your door in the morning, you're already in trouble. The only question is, are you on top of that trouble or not?"
In the summer of 1948, Easy Rawlins is recently laid off from his job at Champion Aircraft, and needs money urgently to pay his mortgage. Easy recounts how he moved to Los Angeles after serving in WW-II when his friend Joppy (Mel Winkler), who runs a bar, introduces him to a white man named DeWitt Albright (Tom Sizemore). Albright is looking for someone to help him find a missing white woman, Daphne Monet (Jennifer Beals), assumed LESS
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