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Gian Paolo Callegari (original story material)Remigio Del Grosso (original story material)
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August 1962 (USA) morePlot:
Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Very credible job moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Richard Egan | ... | King Leonidas | |
| Ralph Richardson | ... | Themistocles of Athens (as Sir Ralph Richardson) | |
| Diane Baker | ... | Ellas | |
| Barry Coe | ... | Phylon | |
| David Farrar | ... | Xerxes | |
| Donald Houston | ... | Hydarnes | |
| Anna Synodinou | ... | Gorgo | |
| Kieron Moore | ... | Ephialtes | |
| John Crawford | ... | Agathon the Spartan Spy | |
| Robert Brown | ... | Pentheus | |
| Laurence Naismith | ... | First Delegate | |
| Anne Wakefield | ... | Artemisa | |
| Ivan Triesault | ... | Demaratus | |
| Charles Fawcett | ... | Megistias | |
| Michalis Nikolinakos | ... | Myron (as Michael Nikolinakos) |
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114 minCountry:
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)Certification:
USA:Approved (certificate #29936) | Australia:G | West Germany:12 (nf) | Malaysia:U (DVD) | Singapore:PG | Germany:12 (DVD rating) | Finland:K-12 | UK:PG | UK:U (cut)Fun Stuff
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Errors in geography: When the Persian army is into Greece where they will meet the Spartans, they are marching between mountains on their left, and water on their right. In actuality, the Persians were marching south along the eastern edge of Greece, so the water would have been on their left with mountains on their right. The way the movie portrays it, the Persians are marching out of Greece. moreQuotes:
Leonidas, Spartan King: Why were you not in council?Agathon the Spartan Spy: Because I'm not a good liar. I don't want to frighten them.
Leonidas, Spartan King: Then the army is as enormous as they say?
Agathon the Spartan Spy: Leonidas, it is bigger than anything you can imagine. For six days, I watched them pass. Six days! I ran out of numbers and still more of them came. They're drinking the rivers dry. And at night there are more of their campfires than there are stars in the sky!
Leonidas, Spartan King: Good. When I was a boy, I always wanted to reach the stars with my spear.
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This was one of the last of the great sword-and-sandal epics. Unlike many before it or since, it managed to get the facts generally correct. The story, recorded in Herodotus, concerns a small band of troops from Sparta who held off the advance of the Persian army in the 5th century B.C. In doing so, they gave their fellow Greeks time to organise a larger army. Themes include: democracy vs. despotism, and sacrifice for the sake of the common good. Ever stoic Richard Egan (star of "Pollyanna," "Esther and the King," and other fun films) does a great job of projecting the inner strength of Spartan leader Leonidas. This film is not to be missed and ranks with other memorable epics of the 1960s, such as "The Long Ships". Note: this is newly remastered and should not be confused with the botched version released some months prior.