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.
- Date of release
- 1922-12-22
- TMDB
- 10.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Romance, Drama
- Director
- James Young
Casting
- 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
Interesting facts
Omar the Tentmaker is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by James Young and featuring Guy Bates Post, Nigel de Brulier, Virginia Brown Faire, Noah Beery Sr., Patsy Ruth Miller, and Boris Karloff. It was produced and adapted by Richard Walton Tully from his own 1914 Broadway play Omar the Tentmaker. The film's tagline was "Would You Know How Omar Loved? Would you sweep 1,000 years aside to find Shireen, the Persian Rose, who wed Omar and awoke in the harem of the Shah?" 24 May 1923). The film is considered a lost film.
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