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Der Gelbe Schein (released in the U.S. in 1922 as "The Devil's Pawn", but NOT as "The Yellow Ticket"; see below), the 1918 Eugen Illes, Victor Janson & Paul L. Stein German silent Jewish anti-semitism Russia post-World War I (WWI) women's liberation melodrama (about a Jewish girl in St. Petersburg at the end of World War I who wants to go to medical school, and her parents ridicule her, but after they pass away, she starts to pursue her dream, but she discovers that because she is Jewish, she can only travel with a special "yellow ticket", and then she is refused admission to the university, but she finds her dead sister's papers and re-applies as her sister and is accepted, and that is only the beginning of this very interesting movie made while the Germans still occupied Warsaw, and some of the scenes were filmed in the Jewish Warsaw ghetto) starring Pola Negri, Harry Liedtke, Victor Janson, Adolf E. Licho, and Werner Bernhardt. Note that there were few movies dealing with women's liberation made in the U.S. in 1918, and it was very daring that Germany made a movie with this theme at that time. In 1920, U.S. women won the right to vote, so it makes perfect sense that there would have been more interest in this plot of a woman's right to higher education in 1922! Also note that this movie was made in Germany in 1918 by UFA, the giant German production company. Four years later, it was first released in the U.S. by Paramount Pictures. It was released under a new title, and presented as though it were a new movie, and they even put "It's a Paramount Picture" on the posters, even though it in no way was! The following year, Pola Negri came to Hollywood and starred in a series of movies there for Paramount Pictures, so likely this movie was released because they knew she was about to become one of their stars. Finally, note that the IMDb says this movie was released in the U.S. as "The Yellow Ticket", but that is a somewhat literal translation of the German title, and we can find no evidence that it was ever released that way in the U.S. (and there is a 1931 movie called "The Yellow Ticket" with Elissa Landi and Laurence Olivier, and we think that just got confused in the IMDb at some point). If anyone has a way to get the IMDb to correct this, please do so!
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