The Yellow Ticket

The Yellow Ticket is a 1931 pre-Code American drama film based on the 1914 play of the same name by Michael Morton, produced by the Fox Film Corporation, and directed by Raoul Walsh. The film stars Elissa Landi and Lionel Barrymore and features Boris Karloff. It is also a noteworthy example of productions from the pre-Code era in that it includes brief nudity.

"Yellow Ticket" redirects here. For other uses, see Yellow Ticket (disambiguation).

The Yellow Ticket
Film poster
Directed byRaoul Walsh
Produced byRaoul Walsh
Written byGuy Bolton
Jules Furthman
Michael Morton
StarringElissa Landi
Lionel Barrymore
Laurence Olivier
Music byCarli Elinor
R.H. Bassett
Hugo Friedhofer
CinematographyJames Wong Howe
Edited byJack Murray
Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release date
  • October 30, 1931 (1931-10-30)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Elissa Landi and Lionel Barrymore

The original play, presented on Broadway, ran from January to June 1914 and starred Lionel's younger brother John Barrymore opposite Florence Reed.[1] This film is the third American adaptation of the play. The first two are The Yellow Passport from 1916 and The Yellow Ticket from 1918. A German version, Der Gelbe Schein, was also filmed and released in 1918.[2]

Plot

When martial law is declared in Russia, all Jews are restricted to their villages. The authorities are unsympathetic to Marya (Elissa Landi), who desperately wants to travel to 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

See also

References
  1. "The Yellow Ticket", by Michael Morton, as produced by AH Woods on Broadway at the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre; IBDb.com
  2. "The Yellow Ticket (1918)" at the Internet Movie Database
  3. "Czarna ksiazeczka" at the Internet Movie Database
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