Ten Thousand Bedrooms

Dean Martin's first solo film after his split with Jerry Lewis was very nearly his last. Dino plays Ray Hunter, a Conrad Hiltonesque playboy hotelier at large in Rome. Taking charge of his latest acquisition -- a huge hotel with the titular 10,000 bedrooms -- Hunter finds himself being pursued by ...more

Ten Thousand Bedrooms is a forgettable, standard-issue 1950s musical that is remembered today only because it was Dean Martin's first solo foray. Forget about the plot -- it's dismissible and of absolutely no consequence. The dialogue is only marginally better, and character delineation is kept to an absolute minimum, even in the case of Martin, whose roles were usually just variations on a well-established theme. The score, of course, counts for a great deal more in a musical; this one is only ...more