Plot:
Javelin tossing, swimming, wrestling, etc ensues. All the people celebrate Phillipides who wins the Olympics. He is also appointed guardian of Athens’s liberty
which makes him captain of the guard.
Elsewhere, Andromeda is reading when her father arrives. The little blonde chick in her mini-toga isn’t impressed with Teocrito, her future husband. After she
leaves, her father and Teocrito are sure with Phillipides leading the guard won’t be hard to manipulate him and conquering Athens.
Andromeda is placing a game with a number of her giggly other mini-toga clad girlfriends in the non-Sapphic definition of the word. Phillipides is able to get the
ball out of the tree by shaking it. He does try putting the moves on her and she isn’t as opposed to the notion like she was with Teocrito. Andromeda mentions
she will be dancing at the temple tonight.
That night, at the temple, some old crone will lead Phillipides to a girl that wants to meet him.
Teocrito wants Karis to seduce Phillipides .
Phillipides is surprised that the girl isn’t Andromeda. Karis has prepared a feast in his honor with dancers. Interpretive dance ensues.
Andromeda readies herself for Phillipides.
Phillipides downs some wine and isn’t impressed with the wrestlers who he proclaims to be nothing more than killers. As he starts to leave, Phillipides must whip the
fire out of one of these hired killers.
Phillipides finds Andromeda’s flower tiara. However, she had already left.
The next morning, Karis reports to Teocrito. She doesn’t want to seduce him and knows he loves another. Teocrito slaps her around with dubbed in slapping
noises. She will do whatever he wants her to do or else.
Men are training to fight as Phillipides supervises. Antides spars with Phillipides who runs off when he sees Andromeda’s chariot go by. Hot pursuit…Huh,
coooo-cooooo….Sorry, got to do a bad Sheriff Roscoe P. Cotrane impression every so often..
Andromeda isn’t quite happy with Phillipides who automatically professes his love for her. The simple answer would involve her mentioning being
engaged but that is also too easy for this movie. Teocrito spies them from a distance and truly horrible plan begins to form. Andromeda rides away
without telling Phillipides her name.
Later, Phillipides bumps into Karus who has automatically fallen for the strapping hero.
Teocrito and Crosis are plotting. They want to use Phillipides to control the Athenian guard. Crosis wants Andromeda, his daughter, to dine with them
because of a special guest. Phillipides arrives and learns that Andromeda is betrothed to Teocrito. Dinner ensues. After Crosis retires for the night. Teocrito
tries to bribe Phillipides with Andromeda. He’ll let him marry the blonde mini-togaed if Phillipides aides the cabal. Teocrito claims that Andromeda knows all about
the plan. Phillipides storms out.
As he leaves, Andromeda professes her love for Phillipides. He storms away even madder after hearing her and thinking she is involved in the treason.
Later, Phillipides is back at home plowing the land when his friend, Milziade , arrives. He talks about Athens. Some of the Athenian guard arrives to alert
Milziade about King Darius of the Persia has landed at Marathon.
Landing rafts and the Persian invasion of Greece ala like the invasion of Normandy ensues. Darius has his army at the ready.
The Athenian Council debate what to do. Some want to surrender because they aren’t a match for Persia. Milziade arrives and claims all men that love
freedom will fight. The 100 members of the Athenian Guard are kept in reserve to defend Athena’s temple. Teocrito wants to surrender. Milziade is sure they
can win if their enemies, the Spartans, join the fight. Phillipides arrives at the meeting.
Sparta will only trust one Athenian: Phillipides. They will meet at the plains of Marathon.
Andromeda sees Karus swap spit with Phillipides right before he rides away. Crosis realizes his daughter can only be need the lovin’ of the manly
Phillipides. He also starts to doubt the entire betraying and selling his country out to their enemies for power.
Andromeda talks with Karus who reveals though she loves Phillipides. The man loves another: Andromeda. Too bad this discussion wasn’t brought
up earlier it could have cut out 15 minutes of anguish.
Some guy spies Phillipides riding to Sparta. He signals some archers that aren’t very good shots. Phillipides has to wrestle, sword fight, and demonstrate
his all around masculine superiority to these sneaky assassins. Only one assassin I left who rides back to report. Phillipides keeps heading on to Sparta.
Teocrito mentions it would be a shame if Phillipides died on the way to Sparta. Oh, a sneaky politician willing to betray a man for his ambitions. The
dying henchman reveals tha attack on Phillipides failed. Teocrito grabs Karus and will take her to Darius’s camp to keep his secret.
Phillipides stands before the Council of Sparta. He tries to convince them it is in their best interest for Athens’s safety. If Persia conquers them, it won’t
be long before he goes after Sparta.
At the plains of Marathon, the battle is about to begin. Catapults fire boulders across the battleground. Soldiers rush to formation and begin to march
on their enemies. Milziade is unwilling to commit his men until he sees the formations of the Persians. Archery fu ensues. The dreaded Athenian Shield
defense is slowly the Persians until the chariots are driven at the Athenians. A number of pits stop some of the Persian chariots.
The soldiers charge. Phillipides arrives claiming the Spartans are about to arrive.
Phillipides enters the fray. Finally he gets the great idea to roll boulders on the Persians. A couple of rockslides later, the Persians have retreated.
The night, a number of bodies are being tossed on the funeral pyres. King Darius wants Teocrito to attack and take Athens from the rear (No Greek
jokes, please…) Karus overhears the plan and tries to escape. Teocrito rewards her with an arrow in the back. Teocrito rides off to lead the Persian fleet
to Parias. The dying Karus slowly crawls off.
In the Athens’s camp, Phillipides is perplexed as to why Sparta hasn’t shown yet. Some men bring the mostly dead Karus to Phillipides. She tells where
the Persian fleet is heading. Milziade has Phillipides to lead the guard to attack the fleet and hold out until the army and Sparta arrives. Phillipides heads to
Athens. Milziade gives Karus a hero’s burial for her sacrifice.
Phillipides runs to Athens and is almost swept away down a river. Finally, we get the much anticipated marathon.
Teocrito and a small group of Persians land to enter Athens from the rear( No Greek jokes, please…)
Phillipides is still running.
Andromeda finds Crosis realizing the error of his mistakes when Teocrito arrives. Crosis is to convince the Athenian Council to surrender to Darius. Taking
Andromeda as a hostage is to convince her father to do what Teocrito said.
Phillipides is still running. I’m sensing a trend here…
Teocrito returns to Persian fleet.
Phillipides finally reaches Athens. Tells the guard about the Persian fleet approaching Parias to attack from the rear (No Greek jokes…)
The diaper clad Athenian guard is ready for action. The dying Crosis tells Phillipides that Teocrito has taken Andromeda hostage, and she must be saved.
Phillipides’s 100 versus a fleet. Bad odds for the fleet.
The diaper clad divers plant stakes in the water.
The Persian fleet rows forward. Andromeda awakens and is stopped from jumping overboard to escape.
More underwater swimming ensues.
The fleet trudges on towards Parias. Finally, one of the ships hit the stakes the Athenians planted. The Persians are confused this course is deep enough
so none of the ships should run aground. More ships begin to hit the stakes and take on water (unlike Ah-Ha “Take on Me…” Bad 80s pop moment…) Some
Persians abandon their sinking vessels.
Phillipides ’s ships start to approach.
Teocrito can’t believe that Phillipides can harm any of the Persian ships.
Flaming javelins from the Athenians should convince Teocrito otherwise. The Persian ships catch fire from the hurled projectiles.
Teocrito ties Andromeda to the prow of the ship. She looks like the wooden maiden at te front of the ship though squirming and looking terrified. Teocrito
orders the ships forward. He also readies the secret weapon on his flagship. At the front 2 pincher arms open, the arms catches one of the Athenian ships
and crushes it to chopsticks.
Phillipides orders his men to board the Persian flagship. An underwater assault ensues to try to hole the galley from the rear (NO Greek jokes…). A
number of diaper-clad Athenians are pierced pointy tipped arrows of Persian archers.
Phillipides spots Andromeda tied to the prow. Leading a group to attack, he goes right after the weasely Teocrito who accidentally falls off the ship
and is impaled on the pincher arms at the front of the ship.
The Persians are still coming to Parias to attack from the rear (No Greek joke…)
The Athenians reach the shore first. It is Athens versus the Persians in a free for all.
When things look the darkest, Milziade arrives with the Athenians riding to the rescue. Persia runs off when they see the Spartans approaching. Rout
of Persian forces ensue.
Andromeda and Phillipides walk off after he puts down his sword.
