- Medieval Muslim Persia is split between a wise man and a murder cult: the poet-astronomer hero Omar Khayyam stands against the Assassins, a secret sect of fanatic killers striking at the Shah from their mountain fortress.
Omar Khayyam (1957)
film · 1957 film by William Dieterle
- Director
- William Dieterle
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Distributors
- Paramount Pictures, Netflix
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Genre
- biographical film
- Cast
- Cornel Wilde, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, John Derek