Omar Khayyam

Name: Omar Khayyam
Cast: Cornel Wilde, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, John Derek, Raymond Massey

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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 & Crew

Director: William DieterleWriter: Barré LyndonProducer: Frank Freeman Jr.

Cornel Wilde

as Omar Khayyam

Michael Rennie

as Hasani Sabah

Debra Paget

as Sharain

John Derek

as Prince Malik

Raymond Massey

as The Shah

Yma Sumac

as Karina

Margaret Hayes

as Queen Zarada

Joan Taylor

as Yaffa

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