Devil in a Blue Dress(1995)
Private detective Easy Rawlins has been caught on the wrong side of the most dangerous secret in town.
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.
Movie: Devil in a Blue Dress
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Easy Rawlins
DeWitt Albright
Daphne Monet
Mouse Alexander
Matthew Terell
Todd Carter
Joppy
Degan Odell
Coretta James
Dupree Brouchard
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