TMDb Rating
5.0/10
4 verified votes
Omar Khayyam (1957)
AdventureRomance
101 min
"Riding high with spectacular action and excitement !"
Plot Summary
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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Keywords to include
AdventureRomanceWilliam DieterleCornel WildeMichael Rennie1957
Director
William Dieterle
Top Cast
Cornel WildeMichael RennieDebra PagetJohn DerekRaymond Massey
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