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Devil In A Blue Dress

1995, Movie, R, 102 mins

DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS
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In this marvelously realized adaptation of Walter Mosley's hard-boiled detective novel set in post-WWII L.A., private investigator Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins (Denzel Washington) is hired to find a missing white woman who's known to "enjoy the company of Negroes." Rawlins isn't so much solving a puzzle as negotiating a minefield, hoping to find his way out without losing his skin. And because he's black in an overtly racist town, his skin is always an issue. Read the complete review for Devil In A Blue Dress
Amateur detective Easy Rawlins (Denzel Washington) is attacked by a knife-welding assailant in this scene from Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), directed by Carl Franklin.
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Posted: 8/1/2008
Denzel Washington plays mystery writer Walter Mosley's "Easy" Rawlins, an unemployed laborer turned detective in 1940's Los Angeles.
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Posted: 8/1/2008
Synopsis: Los Angeles, 1948: a black detective agrees to look for a missing white woman, and falls into a underworld where cops and gangsters are after him and people keep turning up dead. A riveting, colorful mystery, with Don Cheadle.
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Posted: 8/28/2009
Set in 1940's Los Angeles. A reluctant private eye, hired to look for a mysterious woman, finds himself the target of a corrupt politician. Elegant period piece.
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Length: 01:55
Posted: 3/17/2008
Year: 1995
Rated R

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Cast
Denzel Washington: Easy Rawlins
Tom Sizemore: Dewitt Albright
Jennifer Beals: Daphne Monet
Don Cheadle: Mouse
Maury Chaykin: Matthew Terell
Terry Kinney: Todd Carter

 

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