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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Main Cast: Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Diane Baker, Barry Coe, David Farrar, Anne Wakefield, Donald Houston, Anna Synodinou, Robert Brown, Laurence Naismith

Director: Rudolph Maté

Writers: Gian Paolo Callegari, Remigio Del Grosso

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Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth

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