When the Desert Calls (1922)
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.
Director: Ray C. Smallwood
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Violet Heming as Louise Caldwell |
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Robert Frazer as Eldred Caldwell |
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Sheldon Lewis as Richard Manners |
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Huntley Gordon as Dr. Thorpe |
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J. Barney Sherry as Lt. Col. Potter |
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Julia Swayne Gordon as The White Angel |
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Tammany Young as British Tommy |
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David Wall as Frank Warren, U.S. Consul |
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Nick Thompson as Nazim |
| Directing | Ray C. Smallwood | Director |
| Writing | Georgette Duchesne | Adaptation |
| Writing | Donald McGibney | Story |
| Writing | Peter Milne | Adaptation |
| Camera | Mike Joyce | Director of Photography |
| Editing | George McGuire | Editor |
| Directing | George McGuire | Assistant Director |