Omar Khayyam (1957)

Adventure Romance

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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Runtime: 101 mins Rating: 5.3 Tag Line: Riding high with spectacular action and excitement !

Cast

Edward Platt

Jayhan

Raymond Massey

The Shah

James Griffith

Buzorg

Michael Rennie

Hasani Sabah

Perry Lopez

Prince Ahmud

Douglas Spencer

Pigeon Keeper

Sebastian Cabot

Nizam

John Abbott

Yusuf