The Yellow Passport

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]

The Yellow Passport
Still of Clara Kimball Young reacting to John St. Polis punching Edwin August
Directed byEdwin August
Written byAbraham S. Schomer (author)[1]
Frances Marion (scenario)
Edwin August (scenario)
Based onThe Yellow Ticket
by Michael Morton
StarringClara Kimball Young
CinematographyPhilip Hatkin
Production
company
World Film
Distributed byWorld Film
Release date
  • February 7, 1916 (1916-02-07)
Running time
5 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

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 of the crimes the State perpetrates against its citizens.

Cast

See also

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.


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