Salesgirl Sadie Hermann (Dorothy Mackaill), employed in a New York City fur store, has always dreamed of traveling to Paris.

[1][2] Alfred Santell directed Subway Sadie,[2] from a screenplay written by Adele Comandini and Paul Schofield.

The pair adapted a short story by Mildred Cram entitled "Sadie of the Desert", which had first been published in an October 1925 issue of The Red Book Magazine.

He's got what Chaplin did when he directed A Woman of Paris—he and Lewis Milestone and Mal St. Clair all have that same touch, they all belong to the new school of directors, it seems to me.

[6]Chosen to play female lead Sadie Hermann, Dorothy Mackaill opined that the film would appeal to "every girl in America".

"[7] The rest of the cast includes Charles Murray as a driver, Peggy Shaw as Ethel, Gaston Glass as Fred Perry, and Bernard Randall portraying Brown.

[3] It received positive reviews; a journalist for The New York Times enjoyed the film, calling it "an amusing photoplay".

[16] The review in the Motion Picture Herald assessed it as "a nice little feature, nothing big, but will go over on bargain nights", with praise directed to Mulhall's performance.

[17] A Berkeley Daily Gazette review wrote of the film by saying "sheer brilliance rarely has been equalled" and praised the story, direction, and acting.

[18] The Morning Telegraph's review said that Subway Sadie would "delight the majority of straphangers" and that "it is what the boys call excellent box-office".

In the New York World, the review described the film as "a consistently decent affair" which featured good direction by Santell.