Adventure ·Romance · United States of America · 1957 · 1h 41m

Omar Khayyam

Director

Cast

Cornel Wilde as Omar Khayyam Michael Rennie as Hasani Sabah Debra Paget as Sharain John Derek as Prince Malik Raymond Massey as The Shah Yma Sumac as Karina

Crew

Ernest Laszlo — Director of Photography Everett Douglas — Editor Victor Young — Original Music Composer Barré Lyndon — Writer Frank Freeman Jr. — Producer Ralph Jester — Costume Design

Tagline

Riding high with spectacular action and excitement !

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.

Mood & Themes

poet biography

Key Collaborators

William Dieterle Director Ernest Laszlo Director of Photography Everett Douglas Editor Victor Young Original Music Composer Barré Lyndon Writer Frank Freeman Jr. Producer Ralph Jester Costume Design

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