Contraband
Contraband
Release: 1925-02-16
·Runtime: 92m
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Cast
Cesare Gravina
as Pee Wee Bangs
Raymond McKee
as Evan B. Pell
Edwards Davis
as Abner Fownes
Alphonse Ethier
as Jared Whitfield
Lillian Leighton
as Mrs. Churchill
Lois Wilson
as Carmel Lee
Noah Beery
as Deputy Jenney
Raymond Hatton
as Launcelot Bangs
Charles Ogle
as Sheriff Churchill
Luke Cosgrave
as Tubal
Victor Potel
as George Bogardus
