| The Great White Way | |
| Director: | E. Mason Hopper E. J. Babille (assistant) |
| Producer: | William Randolph Hearst |
| Starring: | Anita Stewart Oscar Shaw |
| Cinematography: | Henry Cronjager Harold Wenstrom |
| Editing: | Walter Futter |
| Distributor: | Goldwyn Pictures |
| Runtime: | 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]
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.
With no prints of The Great White Way located in any film archives,[5] it is a lost film.
