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Omar Khayyam

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1957★ 5.8 · 81h 41mAdventureRomance

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.

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Cast

John Derek
as Prince Malik

Henry Brandon
as Commander

Debra Paget
as Sharain

Raymond Massey
as The Shah

Michael Rennie
as Hasani Sabah

John Abbott
as Yusuf

Morris Ankrum
as Sharain's Father

James Griffith
as Buzorg

Cornel Wilde
as Omar Khayyam

Sebastian Cabot
as Nizam

Margaret Hayes
as Queen Zarada

Douglas Spencer
as Pigeon Keeper

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Release date: 1957-08-23

Runtime: 1h 41m

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AdventureRomance

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