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.The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c.1988
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 about injustices the government has kept him from learning about.
Cast Clara Kimball Young as Sonia Sokoloff Edwin August as Adolph Rosenheimer John St. Polis as Fedia Alec B. Francis as Myron Abram John W. Boyle as Carl Rosenheimer Mrs. David Landau as Mrs. Rosenheimer Edward Kimball as David Sokoloff Mrs. E.M. Kimball as Mrs. Sokoloff Thomas Charles as Fiodor Florence Hackett as Akulena, Fiodor's Wife Silas Feinberg as Alex Sokoloff Robert Cummings as Ivan Nicholas Dunaew as Music Master Adolph Lestina as Chief of Police
See also The Yellow Ticket (1918 film) The Yellow Ticket (1931 film)
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