Desc: The Desert's Toll: Directed by Clifford Smith. With Kathleen Key, Francis McDonald, Tom Santschi, Anna May Wong. Red-blooded rides again in this thrilling, poverty-row, low budget story of a man, Frank Darwin (Francis McDonald), and a woman, Muriel Cooper (Kathleen Key), under unusual circumstances, who seek gold in the desert dust and find love along their trail of amazing adventure.