Contraband

Overview

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.

Cast

Lois Wilson

Carmel Lee

Noah Beery

Deputy Jenney

Raymond Hatton

Launcelot Bangs

Raymond McKee

Evan B. Pell

Charles Ogle

Sheriff Churchill

Luke Cosgrave

Tubal

Edwards Davis

Abner Fownes

Johnny Fox

Simmy

Victor Potel

George Bogardus

Alphonse Ethier

Jared Whitfield