Wet Asphalt (1958)

6.0/10 • 90 min • Thriller Drama

Overview

In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months before the end of his sentence, there is a driver named Jupp waiting for him. Soon he learns that the famous journalist Cesar Boyd was the responsible for the shorter sentence. Cesar offers a position of his assistant to Greg; in return, Boyd would write his story about his interviews to war criminals and Greg would help him in other matters. Meanwhile Boyd welcomes the daughter of a deceased friend, Bettina, and he becomes her guardian.

Cast

Horst Buchholz

Greg Bachmann

Martin Held

Cesar Boyd

Maria Perschy

Bettina

Gert Fröbe

Jupp

Heinz Reincke

Der Blinde

Inge Meysel

Gustl

Peter Capell

Jimmy Donnagan

Richard Münch

Dr. Wolf

Ludwig Linkmann

Tanek

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