

He listens sharply when his bartender friend Joppy (Mel Winkler) sets him up with DeWitt Albright, played by Tom Sizemore as a great white shark in a suit. and the garden he tends are Easy’s pride. He didn’t figure on getting canned from his defense-plant job and having to scrounge to pay the mortgage.

Easy, a decorated soldier from Houston, came to Los Angeles to share in the postwar boom. Denzel Washington is flat-out perfection as Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, a private detective almost by accident. Set in Los Angeles in 1948, Devil puts a spin on Chinatown to provide a black perspective on the layers of corruption that stretch from the streets to the corridors of power. Devil in a Blue Dress is the whip-smart and sexy film version of Walter Mosley’s acclaimed 1990 debut novel.
