Contraband

Contraband (1925)

Drama

After inheriting a newspaper in a small country town, Carmel Lee leaves her home in the city to take charge of it. She soon discovers that the town is terrorized by a band of bootleggers, who abduct and later kill the local sheriff. With the aid of Professor Pell, who has been recently fired as school superintendent, Carmel makes a public issue of the sheriff's murder, editorializing in her paper for justice and reform. Pell and Carmel are kidnapped by the bootleggers, but Carmel escapes and alerts the police. The bootleggers are arrested, the sheriff's murder in solved, and Abner Fownes, a politician and one of the town's leading citizens, is uncovered as the leader of the gang.

Director: Alan Crosland

Casts

	Lois Wilson as Carmel Lee
	Noah Beery as Deputy Jenney
	Raymond Hatton as Launcelot Bangs
	Raymond McKee as Evan B. Pell
	Charles Ogle as Sheriff Churchill
	Luke Cosgrave as Tubal
	Edwards Davis as Abner Fownes
	Johnny Fox as Simmy
	Victor Potel as George Bogardus
	Alphonse Ethier as Jared Whitfield
	Cesare Gravina as Pee Wee Bangs
	Lillian Leighton as Mrs. Churchill

Crew