
While New York Sleeps (1920)
80 min
An anthology of three dramas over the course of one evening in New York, with separate characters in each story played in all three by Marc MacDermott and Estelle Taylor. In one, a woman who has married believing her first and wrothless husband has been killed finds him returning to her for blackmail. The second part is the life of a cabaret vamp and a detective tricking each other, while the third story recalls a man who realizes his son's wife is cheating upon him with the man who lives in the apartment above him.
- Release date
- August 23, 1920
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Estelle Taylor as A Wife
- Estelle Taylor as The Vamp
- Estelle Taylor as The Girl
- William Locke as Her husband
- Marc McDermott as Strange Visitor
- Marc McDermott as The Man
- Marc McDermott as The Paralytic
- Harry Sothern as Burglar
- Harry Sothern as Friend
- Harry Sothern as His Son
- Earl Metcalfe as The Gangster
Crew
- Charles Brabin · Director
- Charles Brabin · Writer
- Thomas F. Fallon · Writer
- George W. Lane · Cinematographer
- Bennie Miggins · Cinematographer