Devil in a Blue Dress

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.

1995

Thriller·Crime·Mystery

1h 42min

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Top Billed 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
Mel Winkler
Joppy
Albert Hall
Degan Odell
Lisa Nicole Carson
Coretta James
Jernard Burks
Dupree Brouchard
David Fonteno
Junior Fornay
John Roselius
Mason
Beau Starr
Miller
Steven Randazzo
Benny Giacomo
Scott Lincoln
Richard McGee
L. Scott Caldwell
Hattie Parsons
Barry Shabaka Henley
Woodcutter
Nick Corello
Shariff
Joseph Latimore
Frank Green
Renée Humphrey
Barbara

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