The Mighty Quinn is a 1989 American mystery comedy thriller film starring Denzel Washington, Robert Townsend, James Fox, Mimi Rogers, M. Emmet Walsh, and Sheryl Lee Ralph.

The screenplay by Hampton Fancher is based on A. H. Z. Carr's 1971 novel Finding Maubee. In the film, Washington plays Xavier Quinn, a police chief who tries to help his childhood friend Maubee after he becomes a murder suspect.
The film takes its title from the Bob Dylan song of the same name, a reggae cover version performed by Michael Rose, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Cedella Marley and Sharon Marley Prendergast, which appears on the soundtrack.

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film an overwhelmingly positive review, calling it one of the best movies of 1989. He described the film as "a spy thriller, a buddy movie, a musical, a comedy and a picture that is wise about human nature."

Jacques’s second cooperation with director Carl Schenkel and for both of them their first Hollywood movie with the big stars.

A comedy and a completely different creative undertaken from “Out of Order”, their first film adventure. Traditionally, Hollywood comedies are bright and relatively flat in lighting. Jacques and Carl went another way.