Devil in a Blue Dress

At last the dress and the title character, Daphne (Jennifer Beals), the missing fianceè of a mayoral candidate and friend of murdered Coretta, has called novice detective Easy Rawlins (Denzel Washington) to see her at Ambassador Hotel, L-A, 1948, in Devil In A Blue Dress, 1995, from the Walter Mosley novel.

Unemployed L-A machinist Easy Rawlins (Denzel Washington), worried about his mortgage and looking for work, follows up on a lead from a friend and meets with shady Albright (Tom Sizemore) who, it turns out, wants him to find a mayoral candidate’s fianceè (Jennifer Beals), in Devil In A Blue Dress, 1995.

Gaining entrance to an unlicensed bar in 1948 South Central L-A, unemployed Easy (Denzel Washington), hired to find a white woman named Daphne, meets old pal Junior, (David Fonteno) then Jeris Poindexter, Albert Hall, Jernard Burks and Lisa Nicole Carson as Coretta, in Devil In A Blue Dress, 1995.

Evocative opening of 1948 South Los Angeles, we meet Denzel Washington as novelist Walter Mosley’s hero Easy Rawlins, unemployed veteran, Steve Randazzo as his ex-boss, in director Carl Franklin’s Devil In A Blue Dress, 1995.

In 1948 L-A, Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins (Denzel Washington), after being beaten up by police over the murder of his one-night stand Coretta, gets an offer from mayoral candidate Terell (Maury Chaykin), who has questions, including some about the missing girlfriend of the other candidate, whom he’s been hired to find, in Devil In A Blue Dress, 1995.