Devil in a Blue Dress (film)

Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1995 American neonoir mystery film directed by Carl Franklin and photographed by Tak Fujimoto. The film is based on Walter Mosleys novel of the same name and features Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, and Don Cheadle.

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, youre 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 from Houston after serving in WWII when his friend Joppy Mel Winkler, also from Houston, 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 to be hiding somewhere in the Black community he also learns she is the girlfriend of wealthy Todd Carter Terry Kinney, who was the favorite in the Los Angeles mayoral race before dropping out. Albright, who says Carter dropped out because he couldnt find Daphne, offers Rawlins 100 to take the job. Easy accepts but is immediately suspicious. Daphne is known to spend time in the black juke joint clubs along L.A.s Central Avenue and Easy begins his search at an illegal club on 89th and Central. ........

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