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.