Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) is an American neo-noir film directed by Carl Franklin and photographed by Tak Fujimoto.
The motion picture was based on the novel of the same name written by Walter Mosley, who was brought in to help produce the film. The movie was executive produced by Jonathan Demme, and featured in the drama are Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Terry Kinney, Jennifer Beals, and Don Cheadle.
In this noir, that takes place in 1948 L...
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Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) is an American neo-noir film directed by Carl Franklin and photographed by Tak Fujimoto.
The motion picture was based on the novel of the same name written by Walter Mosley, who was brought in to help produce the film. The movie was executive produced by Jonathan Demme, and featured in the drama are Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Terry Kinney, Jennifer Beals, and Don Cheadle.
In this noir, that takes place in 1948 Los Angeles, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins is a World War II veteran who has been unfairly laid off at the inner tube factory. He becomes a private eye to make ends meet and pay for his mortgage. Trouble is he's never done work as sleuth.
The films begins in noir fashion when Easy Rawlins (Denzel Washington) says:
It was the summer of 1948, and Easy Rawlins was out of work and needed money urgently to pay his mortgage. Recently laid off from his job he is seeking work as an emergency raft designer, his trade, for Douglas Aircraft. Easy recounts how he...
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