While New York Sleeps

The film tells three distinct episodic stories using the same actors, Estelle Taylor and Marc McDermott.

[1] As described in a film magazine,[2][3] in the first story a suburban wife (Taylor) has married a wealthy man (Locke) in the belief that her first husband (McDermott), a cad, had been killed.

The second episode is a recital of the badger game with the vamp (Taylor), the man (McDermott), and his friend (Southern), and includes a scene depicting the Frolic at Ziegfeld Follies.

According to author Aubrey Solomon, this film was Fox's biggest moneymaker for the year 1920 with a profit of $192,000.

[4] While this would seem to conflict with the enormous success of Fox's Over the Hill to the Poorhouse (1920), the latter film did not achieve its largest rentals until it went into full release in 1921.