Film
Devil in a Blue Dress
- 7PM
A dapper Denzel Washington steps into the wingtips of Easy Rawlins—the 1940s gumshoe created by novelist Walter Mosley—for this sophisticated neo-noir, which was unjustly overlooked on its release. Directed with impressive attention to period detail by Carl Franklin, Devil in a Blue Dress follows the private eye as he crosses dangerous racial boundaries while investigating the case of a missing white woman, aided by a scene-stealing Don Cheadle as his loose-cannon sidekick.
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