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Omar Khayyam

Release Date:Release date TBD

Running Time:101 min

Genres:Adventure, Romance

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Cast

Cornel Wilde Michael Rennie Debra Paget John Derek Raymond Massey Yma Sumac Margaret Hayes Joan Taylor Perry Lopez Sebastian Cabot Morris Ankrum Abraham Sofaer

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

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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