Omar Khayyam (1957)
Riding high with spectacular action and excitement !
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.
- Release Date: 1957-08-23
- Runtime: 1h 41min
- Production Company: Paramount Pictures
- Production Country: United States of America
- Director: William Dieterle
