Devil in a Blue Dress
“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.
Genres
Thriller, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Studio
Mundy Lane Entertainment
Language
en
Status
Released
How Devil in a Blue Dress performed
Budget
$27.0M
Worldwide Gross
$16.1M
Gross Profit
−$10.9M
Return
0.6× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$3M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~42/58, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (38% of the domestic run, typical for Thriller) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Easy Rawlins
Denzel Washington
Easy Rawlins
DeWitt Albright
Tom Sizemore
DeWitt Albright
Daphne Monet
Jennifer Beals
Daphne Monet
Mouse Alexander
Don Cheadle
Mouse Alexander
Matthew Terell
Maury Chaykin
Matthew Terell
Todd Carter
Terry Kinney
Todd Carter
Joppy
Mel Winkler
Joppy
Degan Odell
Albert Hall
Degan Odell
Coretta James
Lisa Nicole Carson
Coretta James
Dupree Brouchard
Jernard Burks
Dupree Brouchard
Junior Fornay
David Fonteno
Junior Fornay
Mason
John Roselius
Mason
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