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The 300 Spartans

Movie (1962)

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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Released:	Aug 1st, 1962
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Richard Egan
plays King Leonidas

Ralph Richardson
plays Themistocles of Athens

Diane Baker
plays Ellas

Barry Coe
plays Phylon

David Farrar
plays Xerxes

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Finnish censorship certificate # 64266 delivered on 29-1-1963.
Comic artist Frank Miller (II) saw this movie as a boy and said: "it changed the course of my creative life". His graphic novel "300", about the Battle of Thermopylae, was the basis for for the 2007 film.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Phylon was ordered to use torches to light the hay by pretending to be dead. He was clearly given 4 torches, however, when we cross to him later, he only has 2 torches.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): A character is clearly heard saying that the other army "runs like a machine." How would they know how a machine runs before the term machine has been commonly used? Greeks actually were familiar with the concept of machines in their plays. Plots would be resolved by a god being lowered or raised to the stage by machine, referred to in Latin as a "Deus ex machina"

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