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| Devil in a Blue Dress | |
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| Directed by | Carl Franklin |
| Produced by | Executive Producer: Jonathan Demme Edward Saxon Producers: Jesse Beaton Gary Goetzman Associate Producers: Walter Mosley |
| Screenplay by | Carl Franklin |
| Story by | Walter Mosley |
| Starring | Denzel Washington Tom Sizemore Jennifer Beals Don Cheadle Maury Chaykin |
| Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
| Cinematography | Tak Fujimoto |
| Editing by | Carole Kravetz |
| Distributed by | TriStar Pictures |
| Release date(s) | September 16, 1995 (Toronto Film Festival) |
| Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1995 American neo-noir film directed by Carl Franklin and photographed by Tak Fujimoto.
The film was based on Walter Mosley's novel of the same name, was executive produced by Jonathan Demme, and starred Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, and Don Cheadle.
In 1948 Los Angeles, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins is a World War II veteran who has been unfairly laid off from an aircraft manufacturer, Champion Aircraft. He becomes a private investigator to pay the mortgage, despite having no training.





