Omar the Tentmaker (1922)
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.
Omar the TentmakerRomance, Drama
Cast
- Guy Bates Post — Omar the tentmaker
- Virginia Brown Faire — Shireen
- Nigel De Brulier — Nizam ul Mulk
- Noah Beery — The shah of shahs
- Rose Dione — Shah's mother
- Patsy Ruth Miller — Little Shireen
- Douglas Gerrard — Hassan
- Will Jim Hatton — Little Mahruss
- Boris Karloff — Imam Mowaffak
- Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn — The Christian Crusader (as Maurice B. Flynn)
- Edward Kimball — Omar's father (as Edward M. Kimball)
- Walter Long — The executioner
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