September 29 1995 

DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS opens. Written and Directed by Carl Franklin. From the novel by Walter Mosely. In a booming, racially charged 1948 Los Angeles an unemployed WW2 vet accepts a gangster's offer to turn amateur PI to track down a missing woman. Denzel Washington fortifies stylish, ambiguously Chandler-esque noir thriller. With a terrific Don Cheadle. Also starring Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals and Maury Chaykin.

 

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