Contraband (1925 film) explained

Contraband
Director:	Alan Crosland
Producer:	Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky
Starring:	Lois Wilson
Cinematography:	Al Siegler
Distributor:	Paramount Pictures
Runtime:	92 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent (English intertitles)

Contraband is a lost^[1] 1925 silent film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Alan Crosland directed and Lois Wilson stars. The film is based on the novel, Contraband, by Charles Buddington Kelland.^[2] It was the last film directed by Alan Crosland in co-operation with the distributor, Paramount Pictures.

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 Cosgrove as Tubal
• Edward 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Contraband / Alan Crosland [motion picture] ]. The Library of Congress . Performing Arts Database.
   - Web site: Arne Andersen's Lost Film FilesTHE LOST FILMS OF PARAMOUNT PICTURES . https://web.archive.org/web/20150822130955/http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arneparamountpictures.html . August 22, 2015 .
2. Book: The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921-1930 . University of California Press . 1997 . 978-0520209695.
   - Web site: Contraband . Silent Era.
   -Web site: Contraband (1925) . AFI Catalog of Feature Films . American Film Institute.