Contraband
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.
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Lois Wilson
Carmel Lee
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Raymond Hatton
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Raymond McKee
Evan B. Pell
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Charles Ogle
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Abner Fownes
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Alphonse Ethier
Jared Whitfield
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Lillian Leighton
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Alan Crosland Director · Jack Cunningham Writer Clarence Budington Kelland Story
United States release February 16, 1925 · Produced in United States
Production
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
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United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · February 16, 1925
Theatrical
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