Omar Khayyam
1957 • Adventure | Romance
William Dieterle
Director
Barré Lyndon
Writer
Status
Released
Release date
August 23, 1957
Duration
101 Min
Language
en
Popularity
2.0782
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Overview
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.
Cast
Cornel Wilde
Michael Rennie
Debra Paget
John Derek
Raymond Massey
Yma Sumac
Margaret Hayes
Joan Taylor
Perry Lopez
Sebastian Cabot
Morris Ankrum
Abraham Sofaer
Edward Platt
James Griffith
John Abbott
Dick Elliott
Douglas Spencer
Peter Adams
Henry Brandon
Paul Picerni
