The Man Who Could Not Sleep

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

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.

References

1. "https://brown.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991037730409706966&context=L&vid=01BU_INST:BROWN". brown.primo.exlibrisgroup.com. Retrieved December 24, 2025.{{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)

• 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.

External links

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