The Mighty Quinn (1989)'s activity

A young Denzel Washington is the eponymous police chief of a tiny Caribbean (but American) island where everyone knows everyone in The Mighty Quinn, a charmer of a detective story where the setting does a lot of the heavy lifting. Denzel's vacillating Jamaican accent aside, he's great in this as one of two local legends, of the kind only small isolated places can spawn. The other is the island's Bum Eternal, suspected of the murder of a rich white businessman, or at least that's what the privileged a-holes want Quinn to think. This happens now, while his marriage is in trouble? Director Carl Schenkel isn't a recognizable name, but he has a lot of fun staging this thing, with cool but not over-stylish shots, an evident sense of humor, and a lot of music. It's always great when the titular hero gets a song of his own. The Mighty Quinn is kind of like a blaxploitation film on vacation, with reggae airs instead of dirty funk, and it's a lot of fun.