The Dancing Cheat is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Herbert Rawlinson, Alice Lake, and Robert Walker.

[1] As described in a film magazine review,[2] Brownlow Clay, member of an old Southern family, runs a square gambling house in Tijuana.

In a cafe he meets Poppy, a dancer and the wife of a crooked gambler named Kane, who is willing to go the limit in order to achieve her aim.

When Clay refuses to respond to her advances, Poppy, enraged, enters into a scheme with her husband to blackmail him.

Kane finds her in Clay's apartments and demands hush money.