The Man Who Could Not Sleep

The Man Who Could Not Sleep was a 1915 silent film by Edison Studios. The film is now considered a lost film with known extant copies nearly informationless because of nitrate decomposition. It was directed by John H. Collins and based on a script by Mark Swan. It starred Marc McDermott, Julia Calhoun, and Charles Sutton.

For the 2011 British radio plays, see The Man Who Could Not Sleep and Other Mysteries.

The plot involved a judge named Jeffer (Marc McDermott) who is cursed by a woman to be unable to sleep after an unfair sentence.

References
  • The Man Who Could Not Sleep (lost silent Edison Studios film; 1915
  • "The Man Who Could Not Sleep". Motography. Vol. 13, no. 1–26. June 5, 1915. p. 939.
  • "The Man Who Could Not Sleep". The Edison Kinetogram. Vol. 11. 1914. p. 15.


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