The Yellow Ticket is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by William Parke and starring Fannie Ward. It is based on Michael Morton's 1914 play The Yellow Ticket. This screen adaptation of the play is currently classified as a lost film.
Plot
Anna Mirrel, a young Jewish girl in Czarist Russia, 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 St. Petersburg, 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.
Cast
Fannie Ward as Anna Mirrel
Milton Sills as Julian rolfe
Warner Oland as Baron Andrey
Armand Kaliz as Count rostov
J. H. Gilmour as U. S. Consul Seaton
Helene Chadwick as Miss Seaton
Leon Bary as Petrov Paviak
Anna Lehr as Mary Varenka
Dan Mason as Isaac Mirrel
Uncredited cast
Nicholas Dunaew
Edward Elkas
Charles Jackson (*as Charley Jackson) Richard Thornton
Production
The film is an adaptation of a play by Michael Morton. Raoul Walsh would direct another film version in 1931.
The film was produced by Astra Films and distributed by Pathé Exchange.
References
See also
The Yellow Ticket (1914 Broadway play) The Yellow Ticket (1928 Soviet film) The Yellow Ticket (1931 American film)