The Yellow Ticket
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| The Yellow Ticket | |
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| Directed by | Raoul Walsh |
| Produced by | Raoul Walsh |
| Written by | Guy Bolton Jules Furthman Michael Morton |
| Starring | Elissa Landi Lionel Barrymore |
| Cinematography | James Wong Howe |
| Editing by | Jack Murray |
| Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
| Release date(s) | October 30, 1931 |
| Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Yellow Ticket is a 1931 American drama film based on a play by Michael Morton, produced by the Fox Film Corporation and directed by Raoul Walsh. The film starred Elissa Landi, Lionel Barrymore and featured Boris Karloff. The film is also noted for its brief glimpse of nudity.
The film was the film version of a play produced in 1914 on Broadway, which starred John Barrymore and Florence Reed. The stage version played between 20 January and June 1914.[1]
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A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
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- Elissa Landi as Marya Kalish
- Lionel Barrymore as Baron Igor Andrey
- Laurence Olivier as Julian Rolfe
- Walter Byron as Count Nikolai
- Frederick Burt
- 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
- Alex Melesh as Police Agent
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