The Great White Way
Still showing a rehearsal with Ned Wayburn and Anita Stewart
Directed by	E. Mason Hopper E. J. Babille (assistant)
Written by	Luther Reed (adaptation) L. Dayle (scenario) Old Master Studio (intertitles)
Based on	"Cain and Mabel" by Harry Charles Witwer
Produced by	William Randolph Hearst
Starring	Anita Stewart Oscar Shaw
Cinematography	Henry Cronjager Harold Wenstrom
Edited by	Walter Futter
Distributed by	Goldwyn Pictures
Release date	January 3, 1924 (1924-01-03)
Running time	10 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Great White Way is a 1924 American silent comedy film centered on the sport of boxing.^[1] It was directed by E. Mason Hopper and produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and distributed through Goldwyn Pictures. The film was made with the cooperation of the New York City Fire Department. The film stars Oscar Shaw and Anita Stewart. It was remade twelve years later as Cain and Mabel with Marion Davies and Clark Gable.^[2][3]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,^[4] ambitious press agent Jack Murray introduces two of his clients, Follies dancer Mabel Vandegrift and prize fighter Joe Cain, to each other and they fall in love. After Brock Morton, the owner of the show, says that he will bring down the curtain on the show in the middle of opening night unless Mabel renounces Joe, the latter goes on the stage and announces that, in spite of his prior refusal, that he will fight the English boxing champion. With the money he gets from boxing promoter Tex Rickard, he buys out Morton and the show goes on. Prior to the fight, Morton dopes Joe, but he is brought around so that he is able to fight and eventually wins the match. Joe's father comes east and then brings Joe and Mabel back west with him.

Cast

Preservation

With no prints of The Great White Way located in any film archives,^[5] it is a lost film.