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Omar Khayyam (1957)
Directed by William Dieterle
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.
Length 101 minutes
Actors
Cornel Wilde | Michael Rennie | Debra Paget | John Derek | Raymond Massey | Yma Sumac | Margaret Hayes | Joan Taylor | Perry Lopez | Sebastian Cabot | Morris Ankrum | Abraham Sofaer | Edward Platt | James Griffith | John Abbott | Dick Elliott | Douglas Spencer | Peter Adams | Henry Brandon | Kem Dibbs | Paul Picerni | Robert Tafur