When the Desert Calls (1922)
1h
Running Time
October 8, 1922Release Date
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.
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Cast & Crew.

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

David Wall
Frank Warren, U.S. Consul

Nick Thompson
Nazim

Ray C. Smallwood
Director

Georgette Duchesne
Adaptation

Donald McGibney
Story

Peter Milne
Adaptation

Mike Joyce
Director of Photography

George McGuire
Editor / Assistant Director
Details.
This Movie Is About.
lost film
Wiki.
When the Desert Calls is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Ray C. Smallwood and starring Violet Heming, Robert Frazer and Huntley Gordon.