Plot: Spartan customs are harsh. The Spartans inspect each infant born to ensure it is whole – if it is defective, the baby is destroyed. They raise their boys in the school of hard knocks – in combat training, a small boy’s loss of his weapon earns a bloody lip from the hand of his own father. At age 7, each young boy is torn from his mother and makes his own way in the wilderness, to return a man. Even the King endures this rite of passage. At age 15, young King-to-be Leonidas (Neitzel) lures a wolf into a narrow passage so that he can kill it. He returns home to be crowned King.
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