Omar Khayyam
movie
View on VideBits →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.
Cast & crew
Cornel Wilde · Debra Paget · Joan Taylor · John Derek · Margaret Hayes · Michael Rennie · Perry Lopez · Raymond Massey · Sebastian Cabot · Yma Sumac · William Dieterle · Barré Lyndon