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Post #1482812

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Vultural
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A few reviews . . (film or TV)
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4-May-2022, 11:32 AM

The Yellow Ticket - 1918 - 6/10
AKA - Der Gelbe Schein // The Devil’s Pawn

Sluggish melodrama of Polish Lea who adopts another’s identity to attend Saint Petersburg medical school.
A foreigner, and Jewish, she needs a “yellow ticket” to be in Russia.
She cannot afford rent, but her landlady is understanding.
Besides, the landlady runs a club akin to a sportin’ house, where Lea can be nice to the gentlemen.
Overacted throughout, but this is 1918 and a good vehicle to see Pola Negri.
Nazis tried, and failed, to destroy all copies of this.