The Yellow Passport
1916The 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]
A rerelease title for this film was The Badge of Shame.
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.
Kinostart: | 1916 | ||||
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Genre: | Stummfilm, Filmdrama | ||||
Herstellungsland: | Vereinigte Staaten | ||||
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Farbe: | Schwarzweiß | ||||
Verleih: | World Film Company |
Regie: | Edwin August | |
Drehbuch: | Frances Marion | |
Darsteller: | Clara Kimball Young |
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