The three hundred Spartans (USA 1962)Directed past Rudolph MatéSoundtrack by Manos Hadjidakis"The 300 Spartans March" Note: amusing creative person Frank Miller proverb this film as A male child and aforesaid "it changed the course of study of my creative life". His graphical fresh 300 is astir the conflict of Thermopylae, and was the footing for the 2007 movie 300.The three hundred Spartans is A 1962 Cinemascope movie depiction the conflict of Thermopylae. Made with the group action of the Greek government, it was shot successful the small town of Perachora successful the Peloponnese. It asterisked Richard Egan arsenic the Spartan male monarch Leonidas, Ralph Richardson arsenic Themistocles of Athens and David Farrar as Iranian king Xerxes, with Diane merchant arsenic Greece and Barry Coe arsenic Phylon providing the needed romanticist component successful the film. successful the film, A force of Greek warriors light-emitting diode by three hundred Spartans fights against a Iranian army of about illimitable size. contempt the odds, the Spartans volition not fly Oregon surrender, even if it means their deaths.