Omar Khayyam(1957)

Name: Omar Khayyam
Director: William Dieterle
Genre: Adventure, Romance
Released: 1957-01-01
Duration: 101 min
Cast: Cornel Wilde, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, John Derek, Raymond Massey

Cornel Wilde Michael Rennie Debra Paget John Derek Raymond Massey

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.