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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