Film

Devil in a Blue Dress

1995 · 1h 42m · Thriller · Crime · Drama

Private detective Easy Rawlins has been caught on the wrong side of the most dangerous secret in town.

IMDb

6.8

Rotten Tomatoes

92%

Metacritic

78

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.

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

• Carl FranklinDirector · Screenplay
• Walter MosleyNovel
• Jesse BeatonProducer
• Gary GoetzmanProducer
• Jonathan DemmeExecutive Producer
• Edward SaxonExecutive Producer
• Tak FujimotoDirector of Photography
• Elmer BernsteinOriginal Music Composer
• Carole Kravetz AykanianEditor
• Victoria ThomasCasting

Official Trailer

Release date

September 29, 1995

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

R

Budget

$27,000,000

Revenue

$16,140,822

Genres

Thriller, Crime, Drama, Mystery

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