While New York Sleeps

While New York Sleeps — Plot

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
• Runtime
• 80 min
• Genres
• Drama, Crime
• Director
• Charles Brabin

While New York Sleeps — Cast

Estelle Taylor A Wife / The Vamp / The Girl

W

William J. Locke Her Husband Marc McDermott Strange Visitor / The Man / The Paralytic

H

Harry Sothern Burglar / Friend / His Son Earl Metcalfe The Gangster