Devil in a Blue Dress (film)
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| Film: | Devil in a Blue Dress |
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| Director: | Carl Franklin |
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| Distributor: | Sony Pictures |
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Reviews
Amazon.com
Despite rave reviews as one of the most stylish and intelligent detective pictures in a number of years, this 1995 adaptation of Walter Mosley’s novel never found a mass audience. Too bad, because Carl Franklin’s film is nearly perfect in every way, from its rich, shadowy look to its depiction of life in post-World War II black America (L.A.-style) to the acting of Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, and others. Washington plays Easy Rawlins, an aircraft factory worker who is laid off only to find his true calling: as a private eye, albeit an unlicensed one. Hired to find a missing woman, he becomes entangled in a complex but satisfying case involving sex, corruption, racism, and of course money. Top-notch from top to bottom—and Cheadle is dangerously funny as Easy’s best friend, a killer named Mouse. —Marshall Fine
Related works
Devil in a Blue Dress: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend’s bar, wondering how he’ll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Money, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs….
