Omar Khayyam (1957) DVD

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Omar Khayyam (1957)

Director:

William Dieterle

Writer:

Barré Lyndon

Stars:

Cornel Wilde, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget

Frank Freeman Jr., son of the longtime head of Paramount Pictures, made his debut as producer with the opulent but empty Omar Khayyam. Cornel Wilde stars as the legendary Persian poet, here depicted as not only a philosopher but a scientist, politician and great lover. As the Persians gear up for war against the Byzantines, Omar occupies his time by romancing Sharain (Debra Paget), the favorite wife of the Shah (Raymond Massey). He also does his best to foil a plan by Hasani (Michael Rennie), leader of the Cult of Assassins, to murder the royal family. While many of the characters and events are based on fact, it is difficult to believe the story or the dialogue for more than ten minutes at a stretch. Singer Yma Sumac, then famous for her four-and-a-half octave vocal range, is somehow woven into the proceedings. When Omar Khayyam laid an egg at the box-office, a Hollywood wit, taking into consideration the Southern heritage of Frank Freeman Jr., assessed the results as "A loaf of bread, a bottle of coke and you-all."

Here is the link to the film at the Internet Movie database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050799/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_6

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Posted by Unknown on Apr 2nd 2015

I have been looking for this film forever. Few people know that Cornell Wilde is by far the finest fencer/swordsman to have ever appeared in film. He was actually on the US Olympic fencing team.this amazing film about an actual writer who lived during the time of the old man in the mountain. This man controlled the Middle East by using assassins who were high on hashish. Indeed the word assassin comes from the word hashishim.