Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957)

An American hotel mogul becomes smitten with a young Italian woman when buying a hotel in Rome, but to marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married off.

Land of the Pharaohs (1955)

A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.

Nicely assembled large-scale production has lots to show and is fairly entertaining, but is highly marred by wooden performances and dialogue to match. 

Halliwell*: "Unexpected, interesting excursion into Ancient Egypt, distended by Cinemascope, basically a macabre melodrama with a final spectacular twist. The engineering details would make a fascinating documentary."

Maltin**1/2: "Entertaining, if fruity spectacle...filmed on an epic scale. Hawks claimed neither he nor his writers (including William Faulkner and Harry Kurnitz) "knew how a pharaoh talked"...and it shows. Still worth catching for great revenge ending and now-campy villainy by Collins."

The Desperate Hours (1955)

Three escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household.

Intense crime thriller with excellently clashing performances, but slightly too long.

Halliwell*: "Ponderous treatment of an over-familiar situation with only the acting and an 'A' picture look to save it."

Maltin***1/2: "Extremely well acted account..."