The 300 Spartans
1962, Film, 114 min, Adventure, Drama, History, English, United States, MoviePedia score 65
The 300 Spartans is an account of the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, in which the Greek Spartan King Leonidas, played by Richard Egan, led a remarkably small number of Greek Sparta to victory over an invading Persian army led by evil King Xerxes that was thought to number over 25,000. This spectacular conflict gave the Grecians enough time to organize a force to ultimately repel the Persians, and thus change the course of Western civilization.
Directed by Rudolph Maté
Cast
- Richard Egan as King Leonidas
- Ralph Richardson as Themistocles of Athens
- Diane Baker as Ellas
- Barry Coe as Phylon
- David Farrar as Xerxes
- Donald Houston as Hydarnes
- Anna Synodinou as Gorgo
- Kieron Moore as Ephialtes
- John Crawford as Agathon the Spartan Spy
- Robert Brown as Pentheus
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