Handcuff (Kelepçe) (translated)

Kelepçe (Handcuff) is a colour Turkish crime-adventure film from 1982, shot on 35 mm. Çetin İnanç directed, Ali Fuat Kalkan wrote the screenplay, Mehmet Karahafız produced and Anıt Film backed it. Its story draws on the 1971 American thriller Dirty Harry, carrying that starting point into Yeşilçam crime-adventure.

At its centre is Dayı Cemil, played by Cüneyt Arkın, a man of the law who fights drug-smuggling circles out of a sense of duty. Keywords linked to the film include heroin addicts, hashish, smuggling and street toughs. Eşref Kolçak plays Eşref. The cast also includes Aydın Haberdar, Hakkı Kıvanç, Yadigar Ejder, Hüseyin Peyda as a police chief, Nuri Kırgeç as a doctor and Ali Güney as a drug dealer. Sedat Ülker was director of photography.