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