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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.
It does have an interesting cast, though. Elissa Landi (best known for playing a Christian martyr in "Sign of the Cross") is Marya, a Jewish girl whose father is imprisoned during a pogrom. In order to travel to see her father, she barters for a "yellow ticket" - marking her as a prostitute sanctioned and monitored by…
- Raoul Walsh
- Fox Film Corporation
After she sees a Jewish prostitute traveling with a Russian wrestler, Marya pays a brothel madam to allow her to get a yellow ticket, which enables prostitutes to travel freely, but which, she learns later, stigmatizes them for the rest of their lives.
- Raoul Walsh, R. L. Hough
- Elissa Landi
Although Marya has no interest in practicing prostitution and does not do so, she nevertheless obtains the yellow ticket as she is desperate to see her father. However, when she arrives at the prison, she discovers that her father has been killed by the Okhrana.
A young Russian Jew, Marya Kalish (Elissa Landi), attempts to travel to St. Petersburg to visit her dying father. But she is unable to travel without a yellow ticket, something a single woman...
- Drama
- Elissa Landi
- Raoul Walsh
Belle Mitchell as Marya in a 1915 U.S. touring production of "The Yellow Ticket". Plot. Anna Mirrel, a young Jewish girl in Czarist Russia, is forced to pretend to be a prostitute to obtain a prostitute's passport (a "yellow ticket") in order to visit her father, whom she believes to be ill.
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A Pre-Code movie that has some interesting things to say about systemic problems in pre-revolutionary Russia, shown through the experiences of Marya, a young Jewish woman who registers as a prostitute (the “yellow ticket”) in order to be allowed to leave the ghetto.
