Susie the Sleepwalker

Released August 6, 1917, Susie the Sleepwalker is a one-reel Black Diamond Comedy filmed and produced by the United States Motion Picture Corporation (USMPC) in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures.

An advertisement for the film that appeared in the August 25, 1917, issue of Motion Picture News on page 1526 says the film “is plain wholesome fun that New York’s ‘400’ would be glad to laugh at–and does laugh at.”

As of the writing of this article (December 3, 2017), no prints of this film are known to survive. If you have any information about the film, please contact us.

A synopsis of the film is available in the August 25, 1917, issue of The Moving Picture World on page 1234. The text is here transcribed by Noreen O’Connor:

SUE (sic) THE SLEEP-WALKER (Black Diamond). —  Sue returns from college fresh from a course in prehistoric research, and has a nightmare. She is in pajamas through most of the reel. Comedy effects are secured at the beginning with a garden hose: at the end by the blowing of a safe. Both of these will get laughs. A second-story elopement by way of a ladder offers a display of white stockings. Chase scenes lead to the bedrooms of a hotel. Trick effects show the sleepwalker stepping off a pier onto the water, and off a roof onto the air. This is a good single reel slap-stick.