Les amours d'Omar Khayyam

Titre original : Omar Khayyam

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Debra Paget and Cornel Wilde in Les amours d'Omar Khayyam (1957)

Cornel Wilde incarne Omar Khayyam, le légendaire poète, astronome, mathématicien et soldat perse, qui se trouve aussi être l’un des plus célèbres stratèges militaires de l’histoire.Cornel Wilde incarne Omar Khayyam, le légendaire poète, astronome, mathématicien et soldat perse, qui se trouve aussi être l’un des plus célèbres stratèges militaires de l’histoire.Cornel Wilde incarne Omar Khayyam, le légendaire poète, astronome, mathématicien et soldat perse, qui se trouve aussi être l’un des plus célèbres stratèges militaires de l’histoire.

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5,9/10

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Anecdotes
This picture marked the last film-score credit for Victor Young, the accomplished Hollywood composer, recording artist and songwriter of melodic standards - "Street of Dreams", "Love Letters", "Stella by Starlight", "My Foolish Heart", "When I Fall in Love", "Around the World".

Gaffes
As Omar leaves the council of the Grand Master.

Citations
Omar Khayyam: They call you Chosen One... the Seventh Excellent Creature.Are you also to be appointed Caliph, interpreting the Will of God, Supreme Ruler above all earthly kings?
Hasani Sabah: If it were not so, I could not wear these robes nor hold this office.
Omar Khayyam: You have named me your Counsellor, but
[pause]
Omar Khayyam: I am happier with lesser matters, like this strip of vellum on which I have reduced the year to better reckoning. These figures will guide the lives of men when our mouths have been stopped with the dust of a thousand years, and the name Omar Khayyam is just as long forgotten. These figures, written on the skins of lambs, have more power than all your daggers and secret plans. Such men as you have arisen in every generation, from the dawn of mankind to our times, each with another form of the ancient conspiracy to rule this Earth. Millions of men have died to prove them wrong. What you are doing is not new, and will never be old. And when you have failed - as all those before you have failed and miserably died - it will happen again, and over again, as long as my calendar shall last.
[pause]
Omar Khayyam: But my calendar may not last an hour. Only sworn Assassins leave this rock.

Connexions
Featured in Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005)

Bandes originales
The Loves of Omar Khayyam
Music and Lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans

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6/10

Persian Adventures with Cornel WILDE, Debra PAGET and John DEREK

This Hollywood film from the major studio PARAMOUNT is about the Persian poet and scientist Omar Khayam, who lived in the 11th century AD.

A perfect hero role for Cornel WILDE! Unfortunately, the film by Oscar nominee William DIETERLE (1893-1972), who was born in Ludwigshafen on the beautiful Rhine, turned out to be an overly slick studio production. The cardboard backdrops and artificial flowers are too obvious. That's just how films were made in the era of the big studios. But the attractive actors like Debra PAGET, who was soon to move to West Germany for TIGER VON ESCHNAPUR, and John DEREK, who was to make films in Italy shortly afterwards, are worth seeing.

The film offers an unusual setting by taking place in early Persia, but overall this is not used convincingly enough.