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. Footage was featured in Decasia, an American collage film by director Bill Morrisson.^[1]

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

• 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.

• The Man Who Could Not Sleep at IMDb
• The Man Who Could Not Sleep (lost silent Edison Studios film; 1915)