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Cornel Wilde | Omar Khayyam | |
Michael Rennie | Hasani Sabah | |
Debra Paget | Sharain | |
John Derek | Young Prince Malik | |
Raymond Massey | The Shah | |
Yma Sumac | Karina | |
Margaret Hayes | Queen Zarada | |
Joan Taylor | Yaffa | |
Sebastian Cabot | The Nizam | |
Perry Lopez | Prince Ahmud |
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Producer | Frank Freeman Jr.
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Writer | Barré Lyndon
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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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