Devil in a Blue Dress (film)
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| Directed by | Carl Franklin |
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| Screenplay by | Carl Franklin |
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Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley |
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| Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
| Cinematography | Tak Fujimoto |
| Edited by | Carole Kravetz |
| Distributed by | TriStar Pictures |
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102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $27 million |
| Box office | $16,140,822 |
Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1995 American neo-noir mystery film directed by Carl Franklin and photographed by Tak Fujimoto. The film is based on Walter Mosley's novel of the same name and features 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 from an aircraft 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 from Houston after serving in WW-II 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 couldn't 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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