Devil in a Blue Dress poster
Director Carl Franklin
Screenplay Carl Franklin

Devil in a Blue Dress

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

Release Date: 1995-09-29

Duration: 102 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Denzel Washington
    Easy Rawlins
  • Jennifer Beals
    Daphne Monet
  • John David Washington
    Boy with Toy Rifle (uncredited)
  • Don Cheadle
    Mouse Alexander
  • L. Scott Caldwell
    Hattie Parsons
  • Poppy Montgomery
    Barbara’s Sister
  • Tom Sizemore
    DeWitt Albright
  • Barry Shabaka Henley
    Woodcutter
  • Terry Kinney
    Todd Carter
  • Kai Lennox
    Football

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