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3 April 1958 (West Germany)
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2 wins
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(2 articles)
The Link-Up
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My Spider Links Are Tingling
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My Spider Links Are Tingling
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DVD version badly subtitled
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Cast
(in credits order) | Horst Buchholz | ... | Greg Bachmann |
 | Martin Held | ... | Cesar Boyd |
 | Maria Perschy | ... | Bettina |
 | Gert Fröbe | ... | Jupp |
| Heinz Reincke | ... | Der Blinde |
| Inge Meysel | ... | Gustl |
| Peter Capell | ... | Donnagan |
| Renate Schacht | ... | Wanda |
| Richard Münch | ... | Dr. Wolf |
| Ludwig Linkmann | ... | Tanek |
| Aranka Jaenke | ... | Frau Adorf |
| Nikolai Baschkoff | ... | Cepinek |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Wolf Martini | ||
| Marlene Riphahn | ||
| Lenny Schultz | ||
Directed by | |||
| Frank Wisbar | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Will Tremper | screenplay | |
| Will Tremper | story | |
Produced by | |||
| Wenzel Lüdecke | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Hans-Martin Majewski | |||
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| Helmut Ashley | |||
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| Klaus Dudenhöfer | |||
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| Albrecht Becker | |||
| Herbert Kirchhoff | |||
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| Helga Reuter | |||
Makeup Department | |||
| Herbert Grieser | .... | makeup artist | |
| Trude Weinz-Werner | .... | makeup artist | |
Production Management | |||
| Emil Hesse | .... | production manager | |
| Peter Homfeld | .... | production manager | |
| Heinz Karchow | .... | production manager | |
| Gert Weber | .... | production leader | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Wieland Liebske | .... | assistant director | |
Sound Department | |||
| Hans Ebel | .... | sound | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Iris Roesl | .... | assistant editor | |
Other crew | |||
| Eva Ebner | .... | script supervisor | |
Production CompaniesDistributors
- Europa-Filmverleih AG (1958) (West Germany) (theatrical)
- Dark Sky Films (2005) (USA) (DVD)
- Kinowelt Home Entertainment (2007) (Germany) (DVD)
- Something Weird Video (SWV) (video)
- Walter Manley Enterprises (1966) (USA) (TV) (dubbed)
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"Nasser Asphalt" - West Germany (original title)
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Germany:90 min | USA:90 min (TV)
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An amazing indictment of falsifying news stories and twisting the truth. Eeerily foreshadowing the 2003 New York Times scandal focusing on Jayson Blair who was fired after he was caught plagiarizing and fabricating elements of his stories. The film dialogues contain a lot of humor and fast paced, generally good to follow. Gert Fröbe and an excellent Marti Held create relatively multidimensional characters, in addition to Horst Buchholz's main character. Even though the latest dubbed version is (obvioulsy) in English, the subtitles contain one important recurring error: The town they talk about is Gdingen, a former German town in 1958 Poland. The subtitles, however, keep referring to Goettingen, which is confusing at best, but in the plot it is completely nonsensical. I would withdraw the DVD and redo the subtitles and replace them free of charge. Other than that the plot is nicely developed and another example of Frank Wisbar's talent. Wisbar had only come home from the US a few years earlier and would one year later make "Nacht fiel über Gotenhafen" in which he described the plight of refugees from former Polish territories from where he was from as well.