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Devil in a Blue Dress 1995 Directed by Carl Franklin

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.

Country USA
Production Country USA
Language English
Spoken Language English
Budget $27,000,000
Revenue $16,140,822
Release Date 29 September 1995
102 mins
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
Albert Hall Degan Odell
Lisa Nicole Carson Coretta James
Jernard Burks Dupree Brouchard
David Fonteno Junior Fornay
Beau Starr Miller
Steven Randazzo Benny Giacomo
Scott Lincoln Richard McGee
L. Scott Caldwell Hattie Parsons
Nick Corello Shariff
Joseph Latimore Frank Green
R.J. Knoll Herman
Kai Lennox Football
Poppy Montgomery Barbara’s Sister
Brendan Kelly Terell’s Chauffeur
Peggy Rea Carter’s Secretary
Jeris Poindexter Alphonso Jenkins
Frank Davis Butcher
John David Washington Boy with Toy Rifle (uncredited)