The Great White Way (1924 film)

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.

It was remade twelve years later as Cain and Mabel with Marion Davies and Clark Gable.

[2][3] 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.