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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.

Top Cast

  • Violet Heming

    Violet Heming

    Louise Caldwell

  • Robert Frazer

    Robert Frazer

    Eldred Caldwell

  • Sheldon Lewis

    Sheldon Lewis

    Richard Manners

  • Huntley Gordon

    Huntley Gordon

    Dr. Thorpe

  • J. Barney Sherry

    J. Barney Sherry

    Lt. Col. Potter

  • Julia Swayne Gordon

    Julia Swayne Gordon

    The White Angel

  • Tammany Young

    Tammany Young

    British Tommy

  • David Wall

    David Wall

    Frank Warren, U.S. Consul

  • Nick Thompson

    Nick Thompson

    Nazim

Overview

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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