The Yellow Ticket
| The Yellow Ticket | |
|---|---|
Fox Film Corporation | |
Release date |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Yellow Ticket is a 1931
picture is also a noteworthy example of productions from the pre-Code era in that it includes brief nudity
.
The original play, presented on
Der Gelbe Schein, was also filmed and released in 1918.[2]
Plot
When
St. Petersburg to see her dying father. Marya learns that a special card, called "the yellow ticket", is issued to prostitutes
and allows them to travel freely.
Marya manages to get a yellow ticket. In St. Petersburg, Baron Andrey (Lionel Barrymore), a corrupt police official, prevents his lecherous nephew, Captain Nikolai, from forcing himself on Marya. She later meets Julian (Laurence Olivier), a British journalist, and tells him about injustices the government has kept him from learning about, including the yellow ticket. When Julian's articles are published, Andrey, a womanizer, guesses that Marya has been giving him information.
Cast
- Elissa Landi as Marya Kalish
- Lionel Barrymore as Baron Igor Andrey
- Laurence Olivier as Julian Rolfe
- Walter Byron as Count Nikolai
- Arnold Korff as Grandfather Kalish
- Mischa Auer as Melchior
- Edwin Maxwell as Police Agent
- Rita La Roy as Fania Rubinstein
- Sarah Padden as Mother Kalish
- Boris Karloff as Orderly
- Henry Kolker as Officer at checkpoint (uncredited)
See also
- Boris Karloff filmography
- Laurence Olivier on stage and screen
- The Yellow Passport (1916 film based on same play)
- The Yellow Ticket(1918 film)
- Der Gelbe Schein (1918 German film with Pola Negri; English titles The Yellow Ticket and The Devil's Pawn)
- The Black Pass (Czarna ksiazeczka, a 1915 lost Polish short by Aleksander Hertz also with Pola Negri)[3]
References
External links
- The Yellow Ticket at IMDb
- The Yellow Ticket at AllMovie
