The Yellow Ticket

The Yellow Ticket is a 1931 pre-Code American drama film based on the 1914 play of the same name 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 play was produced in 1914 on Broadway; it starred Lionel's younger brother John Barrymore and Florence Reed. The stage version played between 20 January and June 1914. The play was previously made into an American film The Yellow Passport in 1916 and a German film Der Gelbe Schein in 1918.

Plot

When martial law is declared in Russia, all Jews are restricted to their villages. The authorities are unsympathetic to Marya (Elissa Landi) when she wants to travel to see her dying father. Marya learns that a card, called "the yellow ticket", is issued to prostitutes and allows them to travel freely.

Marya gets 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.

Michael Morton (dramatist)

Michael Morton (1864 – 11 January 1931) was an English dramatist in the early Twentieth Century.

Career

Morton's comedy called Detective Sparkes opened at the Garrick Theatre in August 1909 to good reviews. He also directed the production which ran into October for a total of 64 performances.

In 1914, Morton's play, The Yellow Passport ran 183 performances on Broadway and starred Florence Reed and John Barrymore. It was adapted to the screen and, due to its popularity, several filmed versions were made in the silent era alone. The first, The Yellow Passport (1916), was directed by Edwin August and starred Clara Kimball Young. The second version, The Yellow Ticket (1918), starred Fannie Ward, Warner Oland and Milton Sills. A German version called Der Gelbe Schein was produced in 1918 and starred Pola Negri. Yet another filmed version was a talking picture and was directed by Raoul Walsh in 1931. It was also titled The Yellow Ticket; its players were Elissa Landi, Lionel Barrymore and Laurence Olivier. James Wong Howe was the cameraman.

Yellow ticket

Yellow ticket, yellow passport or yellow card (Russian: жёлтый билет) was an informal name of a personal identification document of a prostitute in the Russian Empire. The document combined an ID card, a residence permit, a license to practice prostitution, and prostitute's medical check-up card. The official title of the document varied: medical card (медицинский билет), replacement card (заменительный билет), etc. The title "replacement card" refers to the fact that upon registration, the prostitute left her original passport or residence permit (вид на жительство) in the local police office and was issued the "yellow card" as a replacement personal ID. The carriers of the card were subject to periodic medical check-ups. This requirement was dropped in 1909.

Zhyolty bilet ("yellow card") and zheltobiletnitsa ("yellow-card-holder") have become euphemisms for prostitution and prostitutes in Russian language.

A traditional etymology is that the document was named so for its yellow color. Another alleged association of yellow color with prostitution is that tzar Pavel I, known for his obsession with uniforms, introduced a unifom for prostitutes of yellow color.

Yellow ticket (disambiguation)

Yellow ticket was an informal phrase for prostitute ID card in Russian Empire.

Yellow ticket may also refer to:

The Yellow

The Yellow is the name of the second EP released by electronica duo Lemon Jelly, according to the insert of Lemonjelly.ky, on September 6, 1999. It was limited to 1,000 10" copies, the first 240 of which featured hand screen-printed sleeves. The tracks from the EP were later incorporated, for more accessible listening, into the critically acclaimed Lemonjelly.ky album. When the inner sleeve was pulled out, the Lemon Jelly logo appears briefly through a series of die-cut holes in the outer sleeve creating a piece of real world animation.

History

From 1998 to 2000, Franglen and Deakin released three limited-circulation EPs, The Bath (1998), The Yellow (1999), and The Midnight (2000), on their very own label, Impotent Fury. The EPs were a critical success, and led to the duo being signed to XL Recordings.

Track listing

"His Majesty King Raam" uses samples from "Evergreen", "Two For The Road", "Softly As I Leave You" and "The Greatest Gift" performed by Henry Mancini and his orchestra.