When the Desert Calls

When the Desert Calls — Plot

British bank cashier Eldred Caldwell lives with his wife on the edge of the Arabian desert. One day a man named Richard Manners appears at their doorstep. He has some incriminating information about Eldred, who is so devastated he disappears, an apparent suicide. His wife flees into the desert, with Manners in hot pursuit. She is taken in by an unlikely rescuer and years later, after she becomes a nurse when World War I ends, she makes a startling discovery.

• Release date
• October 8, 1922
• Runtime
• 60 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Ray C. Smallwood

When the Desert Calls — Cast

Violet Heming Louise Caldwell Robert Frazer Eldred Caldwell Sheldon Lewis Richard Manners Huntley Gordon Dr. Thorpe J. Barney Sherry Lt. Col. Potter Julia Swayne Gordon The White Angel Tammany Young British Tommy

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David Wall Frank Warren, U.S. Consul