When the Desert Calls
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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Violet Heming
Louise Caldwell
Also in
The Man Who Played God
The Cost
Robert Frazer
Eldred Caldwell
Known for
White Zombie
The Vampire Bat
Sheldon Lewis
Richard Manners
Known for
Orphans of the Storm
Huntley Gordon
Dr. Thorpe
Also in
Murder by Television
Mr. Wong in Chinatown
J. Barney Sherry
Lt. Col. Potter
Also in
The White Sister
The Bargain
Julia Swayne Gordon
The White Angel
Known for
Wings
It
Tammany Young
British Tommy
Known for
It's a Gift
She Done Him Wrong
David Wall
Frank Warren, U.S. Consul
Also in
In the Bishop's Carriage
The Wall Street Mystery
Nick Thompson
Nazim
Known for
The Cat and the Canary
Ray C. Smallwood Director · Donald McGibney Story Mike Joyce Cinematographer
United States release October 8, 1922 · Produced in United States
Production
Pyramid Pictures
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United States
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Original language
English
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No dialogue
Release dates
United States · October 8, 1922
Theatrical
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