Insomnia (1916)
Wilkens is afflicted with insomnia. He consults a doctor, who tells him to sleep outdoors and when he is wakeful to run around the block. The next night Wilkens tries the running stunt. He is chased by a crowd of policemen as a suspicious character. His friend Barton introduces Professor Meyers, a hypnotist. Meyers hypnotizes Wilkens and tells him he must go to sleep every night at midnight. He decides to sleep outdoors. He takes a couple of blankets and gets out on the fire escape. A storm comes up and the valet closes and locks the window. Wilkens' bedclothes blow away and he finds himself on the fire escape in his pajamas. He tries to get in the window, but can't. He climbs down the lire escape to the first landing, when he is embarrassed to find several girls. He rushes back up the fire escape and goes in a window not his own. It is the bedroom of Miss Susie Hamilton. She enters and is horrified. He tries to explain, but 12 o'clock strikes and he goes to sleep. Nothing can awaken him. Miss Hamilton is about to telephone the police when it occurs to her it would be awkward to explain to the police, the janitor and her neighbors the presence in her bedroom of a sleeping gentleman in pajamas. So she barricades herself in her living room and sits up all night. Next morning Wilkens is greatly surprised to find himself in Susie's bedroom. He awakens Susie, explains and apologizes to her, then telephones his valet for clothes. Wilkens goes home, but gets in more trouble. When he disappeared the night before. Spike Morgan got in his house and entered Wilkens' apartment. Being near discovery, he was compelled to leave his plunder and fly. The robberies were reported and the policeman, remembering Wilkens and his strange antics the night before, calls on him and questions him. Wilkens says he was home. The plunder is found and still Wilkens will not tell where he was. The hypnotist now takes a hand; he and Barton go to Susie's apartment. Barton introduces Meyers and Susie allows him to hypnotize her. While under the influence she tells the truth about Wilkens, thus clearing him. A romance springs up between Wilkens and Susie, culminating in their marriage.
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GenresComedy
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Earl Metcalfe | Director |
| Mark Swan | Writer |
| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Billie Reeves | |
| Arthur Matthews | |
| Carrie Reynolds | |
| Charles Griffiths |
