The Yellow Passport

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The Yellow Passport
The Yellow Passport 1919.jpg
Directed by Edwin August
Written byAbraham S. Schomer (author) [1]
Frances Marion (scenario)
Edwin August (scenario)
Based onThe Yellow Ticket
by Michael Morton
Starring Clara Kimball Young
Cinematography Philip Hatkin
Production
company
World Film
Distributed by World Film
Release date
  • February 7, 1916 (1916-02-07)
Running time
5 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The Yellow Passport is a lost 1916 silent film drama produced and distributed by the World Film Company. Based on Michael Morton's 1914 Broadway play of the same title, it was directed by Edwin August and starred Clara Kimball Young. On the stage the lead characters were played by Florence Reed and John Barrymore. Morton's story was filmed several times in the silent era and made as The Yellow Ticket in 1931 with Lionel Barrymore and Elissa Landi. [2] [3]

Contents

A rerelease title for this film was The Badge of Shame.

Plot

Sonia Sokoloff, a young Jewish girl in the Russian Empire, is forced to pretend to be a prostitute to obtain a passport (a "yellow ticket") in order to visit her father, whom she believes to be ill. When she arrives in Petrograd, she learns that her father has been killed. She encounters a young journalist and tells him about injustices the government has kept him from learning about.

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References

  1. Ad for the American film Ruling Passions (1918)
  2. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c.1988
  3. Greta de Groat. "The Yellow Passport". stanford.edu.