When the Desert Calls (1922)

When the Desert Calls

1922

Drama

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Ray C. Smallwood

Cast

David Wall as Frank Warren, U.S. Consul

Huntley Gordon as Dr. Thorpe

J. Barney Sherry as Lt. Col. Potter

Julia Swayne Gordon as The White Angel

Nick Thompson as Nazim

Robert Frazer as Eldred Caldwell

Sheldon Lewis as Richard Manners

Tammany Young as British Tommy