The Yellow Ticket

The Yellow Ticket
Film poster
Directed byRaoul Walsh
Written byGuy Bolton
Jules Furthman
Michael Morton
Produced byRaoul Walsh
StarringElissa Landi
Lionel Barrymore
Laurence Olivier
CinematographyJames Wong Howe
Edited byJack Murray
Music byCarli Elinor
R. H. Bassett
Hugo Friedhofer
Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release date
  • October 30, 1931 (1931-10-30)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Elissa Landi and Lionel Barrymore

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, directed by Raoul Walsh, and starring Elissa Landi, Lionel Barrymore and Laurence Olivier. Boris Karloff appears briefly in a small supporting role. The picture is also a noteworthy example of productions from the pre-Code era in that it includes brief nudity.

The original play, presented on Broadway, ran from January to June 1914 and starred Lionel's younger brother John Barrymore opposite Florence Reed.[1] This film is the third American adaptation of the play. The first two are The Yellow Passport from 1916 and The Yellow Ticket from 1918. A German version, Der Gelbe Schein, was also filmed and released in 1918.[2]