While New York Sleeps

While New York Sleeps

80 mins | Drama, Crime | Aug. 23, 1920

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.

While New York Sleeps

80 mins | Drama, Crime | Aug. 23, 1920

While New York Sleeps
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.
Producers Fox Film Corporation
Original title While New York Sleeps
Directors Charles Brabin
Writers Charles Brabin

Cast

Estelle Taylor

as A Wife / The Vamp / The Girl

William J. Locke

as Her Husband

Marc McDermott

as Strange Visitor / The Man / The Paralytic

Harry Sothern

as Burglar / Friend / His Son

Earl Metcalfe

as The Gangster