Omar Khayyam

5.8

/10

1h 41mAction & Adventure Biography Romance

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.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 t... Read more

Starring Cornel Wilde, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, John Derek, Raymond Massey, Yma Sumac, Margaret Hayes, Joan Taylor, Perry Lopez, Sebastian Cabot

Watch "Omar Khayyam" from streaming services Amazon Prime, Google Play, Apple TV+ (itunes) released in 1957. It's a action & adventure and biography movie, and has a rating of 5.8 out of 10 from Imdb which is fairly okay for this kind of movie.