Synopsis
The 300 Spartans (1962) is a historical adventure epic you can watch online on iFILM. Summer, 480 BC: a narrow mountain pass at Thermopylae, and a few hundred Greeks standing between Persia and the rest of Hellas.
King Xerxes drives a vast army into Greece to avenge his father's old defeat. Sparta's King Leonidas meets him at the only road south with just three hundred men, plugging the gap while the other city-states scramble to raise a fleet and a wider force. The odds are absurd, the ending is no secret, and the stand still grips.
Richard Egan leads as Leonidas, with Ralph Richardson and Diane Baker beside him, shot on real Greek locations with thousands of extras instead of digital crowds. Decades on, this very film sent Frank Miller off to write the comic that became 300. Old-school Hollywood spectacle that earns its swagger. Stream The 300 Spartans (1962) online on iFILM.
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