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When the Desert Calls
(1922) United States of America
B&W : [?] Six or Seven? reels
Directed by Ray C. Smallwood

Cast: Violet Heming [Louise Caldwell], Robert Frazer [Eldred Caldwell; and George Stevenson], Sheldon Lewis [Richard Manners], Huntley Gordon [Doctor Thorpe], J. Barney Sherry [Lieutenant Colonel Potter], David Wall [U.S. Consul Frank Warren], Julia Swayne Gordon [the white angel], Nick Thompson [Nazim], Tammany Young [British Tommy]

Pyramid Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by American Releasing Corporation. / Scenario by Peter Milne and Georgette Duchesne, from a screen story by Donald McGibney. Assistant director, George McGuire. Cinematography by Michael Joyce (Mike Joyce). Edited by George McGuire. / Released 8 October 1922. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Deserts

Listing updated: 29 November 2023.

References: Sherwood-Best p. 196; Slide-Aspects p. 29 : ClasIm-204 p. 42 : Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb.