1957
5.0 (4 votes)
1h 41m
Genres
Adventure
Romance
Production Companies
Paramount Pictures
Omar Khayyam
Riding high with spectacular action and excitement !
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.
Key Crew
Director: William Dieterle
Writer: Barré Lyndon
Producer: Frank Freeman Jr.
Director of Photography: Ernest Laszlo
