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.
Cornel Wilde
as Omar Khayyam
Michael Rennie
as Hasani Sabah
Debra Paget
as Sharain
John Derek
as Prince Malik
Raymond Massey
as The Shah
Yma Sumac
as Karina
Margaret Hayes
as Queen Zarada
Joan Taylor
as Yaffa
Perry Lopez
as Prince Ahmud
Sebastian Cabot
as Nizam
Morris Ankrum
as Sharain's Father
Abraham Sofaer
as Tutush
