Omar Khayyam (1957)
Omar Khayyam (1957) - Adventure Movies 101 minutes. . 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. poet, biography
Released: Aug 23, 1957
Runtime: 101 minutes
Stars: Cornel Wilde, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, John Derek, Raymond Massey, Yma Sumac
Crew: William Dieterle (Director), Barré Lyndon (Writer), Frank Freeman Jr. (Producer), Everett Douglas (Editor), Sam Comer (Set Decoration), Bert McKay (Casting)