Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam

Original title: Omar Khayyam

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5.0/10

(4)

8/23/1957

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1h 41min

Omar Khayyam

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Adventure
Romance

Synopsis

Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they are still popular the world over. The details of his life are unknown, so this movie invents a biography for him and includes in it his real achievements - the invention of a new calendar and the penning of those epigrammatic poems. This film has him romancing a sultan's bride and foiling the assassin sect's plot to kill the sultan's son.

Direction: William Dieterle

Screenwriter: Barré Lyndon
Producer: Frank Freeman Jr.

Cast

Cornel Wilde

Cornel Wilde

Omar Khayyam

Michael Rennie

Michael Rennie

Hasani Sabah

Debra Paget

Debra Paget

Sharain

John Derek

John Derek

Prince Malik

Raymond Massey

Raymond Massey

The Shah

Yma Sumac

Yma Sumac

Karina

Margaret Hayes

Margaret Hayes

Queen Zarada

Joan Taylor

Joan Taylor

Yaffa

Perry Lopez

Perry Lopez

Prince Ahmud

Sebastian Cabot

Sebastian Cabot

Nizam

Morris Ankrum

Morris Ankrum

Sharain's Father

Abraham Sofaer

Abraham Sofaer

Tutush