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Released
1962 · FILM

The 300 Spartans

Directed by
Rudolph Mate
Written by
George St George, Ugo Liberatore
Runtime
114 min
AdventureDramaHistory

Synopsis

The 300 Spartans is an account of the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, in which the Greek Spartan King Leonidis, played by Richard Egan, led a remarkably small number of Greek Spartans to victory over an invading Persian army led by evil King Xerxes that was thought to number over 25,000. This spectacular conflict gave the Grecians enough time to organize a force to ultimately repel the Persians, and thus change the course of Western civilization.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Jerry WebbShot by Geoffrey UnsworthScored by Manos Hatzidakis

Box Office

1962 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 57× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$76.5M

Budget$1.4M
Worldwide gross$76.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Der Löwe von Spartade
  • El león de Espartaes
  • La Bataille des Thermopylesfr
  • L'eroe di Spartait

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