The 300 Spartans

Aug 1, 1962

1h 54m

★ 6.4

Overview

Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army now thought to have numbered 250,000.

Genres

Adventure

History

War

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

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Cast

King Leonidas

Richard Egan

Themistocles of Athens

Ralph Richardson

Ellas

Diane Baker

Phylon

Barry Coe

Xerxes

David Farrar

Artemisa

Anne Wakefield

Hydarnes

Donald Houston

Gorgo

Anna Synodinou

Pentheus

Robert Brown

First Delegate

Laurence Naismith

Demaratus

Ivan Triesault

Megistias

Charles Fawcett

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