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Omar the Tentmaker

10.019221h 20m
RomanceDrama

About Omar Khayyam of Persia, the poet and mathematician, who wrote the Iranian first solar calendar circa A.D. 1073. His fiancé was forced to marry the shah, but she eventually escaped and, with help of grand Vazir, joined Omar Khayyam. Hollywood made a film based on the same story with Connell Wilde, the life and adventures of Omar Khayyam.

Directed by James Young

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Guy Bates Post

Guy Bates Post

Omar the tentmaker

Virginia Brown Faire

Virginia Brown Faire

Shireen

Nigel De Brulier

Nigel De Brulier

Nizam ul Mulk

Noah Beery

Noah Beery

The shah of shahs

Rose Dione

Rose Dione

Shah's mother

Patsy Ruth Miller

Patsy Ruth Miller

Little Shireen

Douglas Gerrard

Douglas Gerrard

Hassan

Will Jim Hatton

Little Mahruss

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