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
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Richard Egan
King Leonidas
Ralph Richardson
Themistocles of Athens
Diane Baker
Ellas
Barry Coe
Phylon
David Farrar
Xerxes
Anne Wakefield
Artemisa
Donald Houston
Hydarnes
Anna Synodinou
Gorgo
Robert Brown
Pentheus
Laurence Naismith
First Delegate
Ivan Triesault
Demaratus
Charles Fawcett
Megistias
Michalis Nikolinakos
Myron
Sandro Giglio
Xenathon
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