Release Date

23 Aug, 1957

Runtime

01:41: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Riding high with spectacular action and excitement !

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.

Original Title

Omar Khayyam

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Actors

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

Kem Dibbs

Paul Picerni

Crew

William Dieterle

Barré Lyndon

Frank Freeman Jr.

Ralph Jester

Ernest Laszlo

Sam Comer

Everett Douglas

Victor Young

Hal Pereira

Grace Gregory

Bert McKay

J. McMillan Johnson