Devil in a blue dress

Blu-ray 2022

Easy Rawlins, a tough World War II veteran and detective, is hired by a financier and gangster to locate Daphne Monet, a search that leads him from elegant boardrooms to the raucous jazz joints of late 1940s Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction

Man-woman relationships Fiction

Private investigators California Los Angeles Fiction

Rawlins, Easy (Fictitious character) Fiction

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Crime films Feature films Fiction Thrillers (Motion pictures) Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Part of a Series:

Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 1135 Criterion collection ; 1135 Blu-ray

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ISBN:

9781681439617

Edition:

Director-approved Blu-ray special edition

Description:

1 videodisc (101 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
surround
DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
wide screen
HDTV
video file
Blu-ray video
region A

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A
MPAA rating: R

Notes:

Based on the novel by Walter Mosley
Essay by critic Julian Kimble included in container
Features: audio commentary featuring Franklin; new conversation between Franklin and actor Don Cheadle; new conversation between Walter Mosley, author of the novel on which the film is based, and novelist and screenwriter Attica Locke; onstage conversation between Franklin and film historian Eddie Muller, recorded at the 2018 Noir City Film Festival in Chicago; screen test for Cheadle; trailer
Originally released as a motion picture in 1995
Title from container
Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, Don Cheadle, Maury Chaykin
Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH)
Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
For private home use only
Audio track in English, captions in English

Control Number:

3202559

UPC:

715515274715

Other Authors:

Beals, Jennifer, actor
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor
Franklin, Carl, 1949- film director, screenwriter
Sizemore, Tom, 1961-2023, actor
Washington, Denzel, 1954- actor
motion picture adaptation of (work): Mosley, Walter. Devil in a blue dress

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