Omar Khayyam. Victor Young
Omar Khayyam (Cornel Wilde) was among the greatest of Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they are still popular the world over. The details of his life are unknown, so this movie invents a biography for him and includes in it his real achievements - the invention of a new calendar and the penning of those epigrammatic poems. This film has him losing the love of Sharain (Debra Paget), his life to his ruler, and foiling an assassin sect's plot to kill that ruler, the empire's Shah (Raymond Massey).
Albert Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor. In the mid-1930s, he moved to Hollywood where he concentrated on films, recordings of light music and providing backing for popular singers. His last scores were for the 1957 films "Omar Khayyam", "Run of the Arrow" and "China Gate", which were released after his death. This one is an exotic, colorful soundtrack, epic and adventure themes and sensual melodies, varied in themes and with a notable main theme.