Trouble Maker (Baş Belası)

Atıf Yılmaz directed Baş Belası (Trouble Maker in English), a Turkish film from 1976. This colour production by Erler Film combines adventure, comedy and romance and runs about 85 minutes. The producers were Zlavko Kunkera and Türker İnanoğlu. Fuat Özlüer and Erdoğan Tünaş wrote the script and Çetin Gürtop was the cinematographer. Protection money, casinos, the mob and internal score-settling are the story's main ingredients.

One of the most feared names in the underworld, the "Baba" (Sadri Alışık), spreads terror through his territory and collects protection money by force. One day a shrewd fraudster appears who has learned their secret passwords and collects the money in their name: Rıza (Robert Widmark), an adventurous young glider enthusiast. The Baba tries every way to catch him but he slips away. Rıza meets Ayşe (Gülşen Bubikoğlu), a very beautiful young woman, and their relationship soon turns into love. On the day they decide to marry, he is taken home to be introduced and is shocked to find that Ayşe's father is the Baba who is looking for him everywhere. Meanwhile the Baba's second-in-command Bekir (Turgut Özatay) is making plans of his own to take his place.

Alberto Dell'Acqua, Humayun Tebrizyan and Süheyl Eğriboz are also in the cast.