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When the Desert Calls

Oct 8, 1922 · 1h 0m
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Drama

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

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
Directed by Ray C. Smallwood

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Pyramid Pictures
Country
US

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