- HD 1080
- Runtime: 101m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: William Dieterle
- Stars: Cornel Wilde, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, John Derek, Raymond Massey
- keywords: poet, biography
- Production_studio: Paramount Pictures
- Slogan: Riding high with spectacular action and excitement !
- The Omar Khayyam is featured in the top rankings of 1957
- #49 in Top Romance Movies of 1957
- #23 in Top Adventure Movies of 1957
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.