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Director:
Writers:
Gian Paolo Callegari (original story material)
Remigio Del Grosso (original story material)
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Release Date:
August 1962 (USA) more
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Plot:
Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300... more | add synopsis
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Lion of Sparta
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Runtime:
114 min
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Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
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)
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Trivia:
The photos of ancient Greek ruins used during the main credits are directly comparable with the paintings used during the main credits of The Guns of Navarone (1961) more
Goofs:
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. more
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Themistocles of Athens: Truth is a heady wine. A politician must never exaggerate people's capacity for it. more
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Featured in Watchmen (2009) more

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My favorite all time movie, 25 January 2004

I saw this movie when it first came out in 1962, I believe, when I was just a kid and it is still one of my favorite movies of all time. As I got older there were a few mistakes in it that I noticed. One was, someone in the movie said that the Spartans fight like Machines. I don't think that the word machines or machines in general were invented then. I could be wrong though. A few other flaws but in my judgement it is one the finest army action fighting movies.Reading history books about the Persian wars it seems quite accurate.

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