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When the Desert Calls

When the Desert Calls

Release: 1922-10-08 ·Runtime: 60m
Drama

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.

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Pyramid Pictures

Crew