{"id":35450,"date":"2024-03-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35450"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:52:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:52:59","slug":"devil-in-a-blue-dress-1995-directed-by-carl-franklin-starring-denzel-washington-don-cheadle-tom-sizemore-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35450","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Devil in a Blue Dress&#8221; (1995) directed by Carl Franklin, starring Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle &#038; Tom Sizemore \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z032124zview_devilbluedress.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Devil in a Blue Dress <\/strong><\/em>(1995)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>\u00a0Carl Franklin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>\u00a0Carl Franklin <\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/49XoFNA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by<strong>\u00a0Walter Mosley<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, Don Cheadle, Maury Chaykin, Terry Kinney, Albert Hall, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jernard Burks, John Roselius, Beau Starr, L. Scott Caldwell<\/strong> and <strong>Barry Shabaka Henley<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>In a world divided by black and white, Easy Rawlins is about to cross the line.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The year is 1948. Ezekiel &#8220;Easy&#8221; Rawlins (Washington) has just been laid off and has a house payment coming due.\u00a0 He needs money, so when a white PI named DeWitt Albright (Sizemore) offers him a job, Easy accepts.\u00a0 All he has to do is find a missing white woman involved with some political heavyweights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When another woman ends up murdered,\u00a0 Albright turns on Easy.\u00a0 To make matters worse crooked cops give Easy 24 hours to find the real killer or they&#8217;ll frame him.\u00a0 Easy brings in his friend Raymond &#8220;Mouse&#8221; Alexander (Cheadle) to help him.\u00a0 Mouse is a stone-cold killer, but sometimes it take one to catch one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The clock is ticking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Devil in a Blue Dress<\/em>, the novel and the movie get my highest recommendation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Carl Franklin&#8217;s adaption and direction are first rate.\u00a0 Denzel Washington and Don Cheadle were perfect as Easy and Mouse. Tom Sizemore was excellent as DeWitt Albright.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a shame that Franklin, Washington and Cheadle didn&#8217;t reteam to film more of Mosley&#8217;s stories.\u00a0 At least one got this one.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Devil in a Blue Dress <\/strong><\/em>(1995) rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z032124zview_devilbluedress2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"273\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) Director: \u00a0Carl Franklin Screenplay: \u00a0Carl Franklin based on DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS\u00a0by\u00a0Walter Mosley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,52,17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40881,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35450\/revisions\/40881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}