Movielogr
Wet Asphalt (1958)
Directed by Frank Wisbar
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.
Length 90 minutes
Actors
Horst Buchholz | Martin Held | Maria Perschy | Gert Fröbe | Heinz Reincke | Inge Meysel | Peter Capell | Richard Münch | Marlene Riphahn | Renate Schacht