Directed by:
William DieterleScreenplay:
Barré LyndonCinematography:
Ernest LaszloComposer:
Victor YoungCast:
Cornel Wilde, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, John Derek, Raymond Massey, Margaret Hayes, Joan Taylor, Sebastian Cabot, Henry Brandon, Paul Picerni, Perry Lopez (more)VOD (1)
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Omar Khayyam was among the greatest of 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 losing the love of his life to his ruler, and foiling an assassin sect’s plot to kill that ruler, the empire’s shah. (Via Vision Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Cornel Wilde
Austria-Hungary
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Michael Rennie
UK
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Debra Paget
USA
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John Derek
USA
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Raymond Massey
Canada
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Margaret Hayes
USA
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Joan Taylor
USA
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Sebastian Cabot
UK
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The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) - narrator
Henry Brandon
German Empire
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Paul Picerni
USA
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Perry Lopez
USA
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James Griffith
USA
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Edward Platt
USA
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E.J. André
USA
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Dale Van Sickel
USA
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Len Hendry
USA
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Dick Elliott
USA
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Ric Roman
USA
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John Abbott
UK
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Alan Wells
USA
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