Omar the Tentmaker
Romance Drama
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.
Director James Young
Cast
Noah Beery
The shah of shahs
Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn
The Christian Crusader (as Maurice B. Flynn)
Edward Kimball
Omar's father (as Edward M. Kimball)
Guy Bates Post
Omar the tentmaker
Virginia Brown Faire
Shireen
Evelyn Selbie
Zarah
Rose Dione
Shah's mother
George Regas
Emissary to the Shah (as George Rigas)
Nigel De Brulier
Nizam ul Mulk
Patsy Ruth Miller
Little Shireen
Douglas Gerrard
Hassan
Boris Karloff
Imam Mowaffak
Walter Long
The executioner