| Address Unknown | |
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| Directed by | William Cameron Menzies |
| Screenplay by | Herbert Dalmas |
| Based on | Address Unknown (1938 novel) by Kressmann Taylor |
| Produced by | William Cameron Menzies |
| Starring | Paul Lukas |
| Cinematography | Rudolph Maté |
| Edited by | Al Clark |
| Music by | Ernst Toch |
| Color process | Black and white |
Production company | Columbia Pictures |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Address Unknown is a 1944 American film noir drama film directed by William Cameron Menzies based on Kressmann Taylor's novel Address Unknown (1938). The film tells the story of two families caught up in the rise of Nazism in Germany before the start of World War II.[1]
Cinematographer Rudolph Maté employed shadows, shapes and camera angles to create the imagery. One notable scene shows Martin Schulz (Paul Lukas) descending a staircase awaiting his arrest by the Gestapo, with the shadow of a web-like criss-cross of window panes behind him.
- ^ Higham, Charles; Greenberg, Joel (1968). Hollywood in the Forties. London: A. Zwemmer Limited. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-498-06928-4.