Contraband (1925)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 1925-02-16
Runtime: 92 minutes
Director: Alan Crosland
Top Cast
- 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
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