“Devil in a Blue Dress” quotes
(1995)
Title Devil in a Blue Dress
Year 1995
Director Carl Franklin
Genre Drama, Crime, Thriller, Mystery
Year 1995
Director Carl Franklin
Genre Drama, Crime, Thriller, Mystery
Plot – Easy Rawlins is a black man who moves to Los Angeles after the Second World War. He loses his job and accepts to work for gangster Dewitt Albright to find Daphne Monet, the mayor candidate Todd Carter's lover. Rawlins visits Central Avenue bars and learns Monet is a friend of Coretta James, Dupree Brouchard's lover. After a night spent drinking together, Dupree is drunk and Easy drives him home. Coretta tells him to talk with Frank Green but next morning the police finds the woman dead.
All actors – Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, Don Cheadle, Maury Chaykin, Terry Kinney, Mel Winkler, Albert Hall, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jernard Burks, David Fonteno, John Roselius
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“The newspapers was goin' on and on about the city elections, like they was really gonna change somebody's life. But my life had already changed when I lost my job three weeks before.”
“You said don't shoot him, right? Well I didn't; I choked... look, Easy, if you ain't want him dead, why you leave him with me?”
“I thought about what Odell had said about friends, and it makes sense to me. Odell goes to church every Sunday, so he would know. Later on he challenged me to a game of dominoes, now what'd he go and do that for? We got to talking about Texas and fooled around, and drunk almost a quart of whiskey, and I forgot all about Daphne Monet, DeWitt...” (continue)(continue reading)
“A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is: Are you on top of that trouble or not?”
“It was summer 1948, and I needed money. After goin' door-to-door all day long, I was back again at Joppy's bar trying to figure out where I was gonna go looking for work the next day.”
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