The Blue Bead

{{Short description|1974 Turkish comedy film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Blue Bead

| image = MaviBoncuk.jpg

| caption = Film poster

| director = Ertem Eğilmez

| writer = Zeki Alasya
Ertem Eğilmez
Sadık Şendil

| producer = Ertem Eğilmez

| starring = Emel Sayın
Tarık Akan
Zeki Alasya
Metin Akpınar
Münir Özkul
Halit Akçatepe
Kemal Sunal
Adile Naşit

| narrator =

| cinematography = Hüseyin Özşahin

| editing = Arzu Film

| music =

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|1974|1|1}}

| runtime = 78 minutes

| country = Turkey

| language = Turkish

| budget =

| gross =

}}

The Blue Bead ({{langx|tr|Mavi Boncuk}}) is a 1974 Turkish comedy film, produced, co-written and directed by Ertem Eğilmez, featuring Turkish classical music singer Emel Sayın as a nightclub singer who is kidnapped by a gang of slackers after they are beaten and thrown out of the club where she works. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on January 1, 1974, is considered a comedy classic in its homeland.{{who|by|date=April 2017}}