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When the Desert Calls

(1922)

October 8, 1922• 1h 0m
70%
TMDB Score

Overview

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.

Ray C. Smallwood

Director

Top Billed Cast

VH

Violet Heming

Louise Caldwell

RF

Robert Frazer

Eldred Caldwell

SL

Sheldon Lewis

Richard Manners

HG

Huntley Gordon

Dr. Thorpe

JBS

J. Barney Sherry

Lt. Col. Potter

JSG

Julia Swayne Gordon

The White Angel

TY

Tammany Young

British Tommy

DW

David Wall

Frank Warren, U.S. Consul

NT

Nick Thompson

Nazim