The Lonely Ones' Quay (Yalnızlar Rıhtımı)

The Turkish drama and romance Yalnızlar Rıhtımı ("The Lonely Ones' Quay") dates from 1959 and is in black and white. Ömer Lütfi Akad directed it ten years into his film career, having made twenty features since 1949. İhsan İpekçi produced it for İpek Film, and the script came from the poet Attilâ İlhan writing as Ali Kaptanoğlu. The film leans toward the Poetic Realism movement and stirred real argument when it opened.

It is a love-and-adventure story. Güner (Çolpan İlhan), a nightclub hostess kept by the currency-smuggling bar owner Ali (Turgut Özatay), becomes bound up with the ship's captain Rıdvan (Sadri Alışık). Osman Alyanak and Saadettin Erbil also appear, and some scenes were shot in İzmir.

Some critics praised it while others were merciless; Nijat Özön called it a freak of a film. Its script was said to owe something to Marcel Carné's 1938 Le Quai des Brumes, written by Jacques Prévert. Çolpan İlhan sings the title song in a husky voice, a tango-style number composed by Necdet Koyutürk and the film's most remembered element. Hulki Saner wrote the score and Yuvakim Filmeridis shot it. Sadri Alışık and Çolpan İlhan married after the film and stayed together until his death in 1995.