: Directed by Rudolph Maté, it was filmed in authentic Greek settings (specifically Loutraki, near Corinth) and used over 2,000 soldiers from the Greek army as extras. Why Watch the 1962 Version?
Into this stood a young man named Arjun, a carpenter’s apprentice who had spent his childhood listening to stories of valor and justice. He had trained at the village gymnasium under Coach Rangan, a stooped ex-athlete who taught a ragged band of boys how to run, to wrestle, to lift and to never let fear tighten a spine. When the developers sent in men with badges and a siren of lawyers, Arjun gathered the trainees—boys and men in their late teens and early twenties, and a few older hands who had never lost the look of a fighter. Tamilyogi 300 Spartans