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.
William Dieterle | Director |
Barré Lyndon | Writer |
Frank Freeman Jr. | Producer |
Everett Douglas | Editor |
Sam Comer | Set Decoration |
Bert McKay | Casting |
Hal Pereira | Art Direction |
Ernest Laszlo | Director of Photography |
Ralph Jester | Costume Design |
Grace Gregory | Set Decoration |