Omar Khayyam

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Release date: August 23, 1957
Duration: 101 minutes
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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.

Starring

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