Omar the Tentmaker

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.

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80 min

Cast

Guy Bates Post

as Omar the tentmaker

Virginia Brown Faire

as Shireen

Nigel De Brulier

as Nizam ul Mulk

Noah Beery

as The shah of shahs

Rose Dione

as Shah's mother

Patsy Ruth Miller

as Little Shireen

Douglas Gerrard

as Hassan

Will Jim Hatton

as Little Mahruss

Boris Karloff

as Imam Mowaffak

Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn

as The Christian Crusader (as Maurice B. Flynn)

Edward Kimball

as Omar's father (as Edward M. Kimball)

Walter Long

as The executioner

Evelyn Selbie

as Zarah

John Gribner

as Mahruss

Gordon Mullen

as Emissary to the Shah

George Regas

as Emissary to the Shah (as George Rigas)

Nick Shaid

as Arab Guard in Shireen's Garden (uncredited)

Director

James Young