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The 300 Spartans
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Title: The 300 Spartans

Release Date: 1 Aug 1962

Runtime: 1h 54m

Genre: Adventure, History, War

Director: 20th Century Fox

Production Companies: 20th Century Fox

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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.4 (134 votes)

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
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