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.
Richard Egan
as King Leonidas
Ralph Richardson
as Themistocles of Athens
Diane Baker
as Ellas
Barry Coe
as Phylon
David Farrar
as Xerxes
Anne Wakefield
as Artemisa
Donald Houston
as Hydarnes
Άννα Συνοδινού
as Gorgo
Robert Brown
as Pentheus
Laurence Naismith
as First Delegate
Ivan Triesault
as Demaratus
Charles Fawcett
as Megistias