When the Desert Calls
1922, English. Directed by Ray C. Smallwood.
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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- 1h 0m
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- Released
- 8 October 1922
- Country
- United States of America
- Written by
- Donald McGibney
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When the Desert Calls isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 8 October 1922. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed When the Desert Calls?
When the Desert Calls (1922) was directed by Ray C. Smallwood and stars Violet Heming, Robert Frazer, Sheldon Lewis.