Director : Rudolph Maté
Release Date : August 1962 (USA)
Genre : Adventure, Drama, History, War
Cast : Richard Egan as King Leonidas, Ralph Richardson as Themistocles of Athens (as Sir Ralph Richardson), Diane Baker as Ellas, Barry Coe as Phylon, David Farrar as Xerxes, Donald Houston as Hydarnes, Anna Synodinou as Gorgo, Kieron Moore as Ephialtes, John Crawford as Agathon the Spartan Spy, Robert Brown as Pentheus, Laurence Naismith as First Delegate, Anne Wakefield as Artemisa, Ivan Triesault as Demaratus, Charles Fawcett as Megistias, Michalis Nikolinakos as Myron (as Michael Nikolinakos)
Plot : Essentially correct narrative of how Spartan king Leonidas led an precisely petite army of Greek Soldiers (300… more |
Run Time : 114 min
Country : USA
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Language : English
Filming Locations : Athens, Greece
Company : Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Trivia : The concluding movie for the purpose that David Farrar, following which he retired to South Africa.
Goofs : Revealing mistakes: When the Immortals attack, the javelins thrown by the Greeks meet unsleeping with no points. Many of the Immortals may well engagement acknowledged relinquishing their weapons to seize the javelins along with lodge each other less than their arms or to their chests. A javelin plus a blunt comprehensive may well in addition engagement it looks that acknowledged bumping one among the extras inside the mouth.
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Plot Summary : Essentially precise anecdote of how Spartan king Leonidas led an entirely tiny army of Greek Soldiers (300 of one another his inner most body guards fancy Sparta) to have cubicle for off an invading Persian army over 20 period of times because large. The factual heroism of those who stood (and sooner or later died) in addition to Leonidas assisted wear down the road of Western Civilization, letting the Greek city bad ways term to fix an army which shocked the Persians. Set inside 480 BC.
The Persian king of kings Xerxes has dedicated his reign to accomplishing the objective of his father, stopped by Greeks, to broaden his Achaemenid slave domain to also clear of Greece, also marches inside 480 BC and an unprecedentedly huge army. When a captured Spartan explorer shows unconditional bravery yet on the chopping block, he is spared also send to the accrued Greek positions at Corinth to results the Persian might. There the Athenian boss Themistocles manages to spin the defeatist tide by legitimately placing the Athenian fleet lower than the imperative sway of Sparta, whose king Leonidas pledges to espouse Greece in any case who follows- on the variant hand give assistance to inside Sparta, the law council hesitates to commit the total army pending the Persians emergence the Corinthian Isthmus, also yet beyond an assisting Delphi oracle -loose a king or the entirety Sparta- is handled to point it earlier than the consummate of a religious festival, as a result he soars first, keeping his promise, and main his 300 suggest physically powerful bodyguard. Realizing there is no long period of time to linger as plenty reinforcements, on the variant hand let alone the northern right to use to Greece right may perhaps accept the Persian to swarm the realm earlier than it may well style a right stand, he decides to obtain a heroic suicidal stand: struggle unfeasible likelihood awaiting the very last mature man at the narrow blow over of Thermopylai to minimize the numeric disadvantage, inside the wish this will procure sufficient time. They show Spartans ought to have the standing of fiercest also best-disciplined fighters, ingeniously initiating the height of amaze also interjecting the over-confident aggressor to surfacing desolation by inflicting mortifying losses at every failing fight wave, yet by the imperial body safeguard of 10,000 ‘immortals’. Just while Xerxes intentions to get back faking a divine message, the rebellious Ephialtes arrives…
In 480 BC, the ambitious, fierce also merciless King Xerxes (David Farrar) of Persia invades Greece also his hefty army to expand his infinite slave empire. The bold Spartan army is the vast trust to gratis also meet Greece, also king Leonidas (Richard Egan) assures to the council of the Greek Stats to maintain the route of Thermopylae, the simply habit by home to happen on Athens. However, he is betrayed by the politicians of Sparta also stays on my own also his private body sentinel army still of three hundred warriors only. Using guts also vast understanding of methods of war, he defends Thermopylae pending a treacherous goatherd tells King Xerxes a confidential goat route leading to the aid of Leonidas’s army.
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