Ten Thousand Bedrooms

Director: Richard Thorpe
Dean Martin is in Rome and he's a millionaire playboy with his own plane and a string of hotels. Hence the title 10,000 Bedrooms.

Deano is surrounded by four beautiful Italian woman, who are sisters. One of them, Maria (Eva Bartok) has eyes for the millionaire bachelor. Whilst Deano ends up being smitten by the youngest sister Nina (Anna Maria Alberghetti) who's only 18....whooo! be careful Deano. The hitch is, (pun intended) for Deano to marry Nina he has to first get her three older sisters married off. The father played by Walter Slezak is adamant about keeping with tradition. So that's how the story goes...


Ten Thousand Bedrooms was Dean Martin's first movie after breaking off from the movie making team of him and Jerry Lewis. Thank goodness too, as I never liked those Martin and Lewis films.

This was a big budget film shot in color and CinemaScope. It was shot partially on location and offered something to moviegoers that TV couldn't...a chance to see full color, scenes of exotic locales. I love how the movie opens with Martin flying his airplane into Rome...We see gorgeous shots of St Peters, the Coliseum, the Forum and much more. Later we see many neat shots of Rome and Italy.

This is billed as a musical-comedy-romance, but outside of Deano singing a couple short songs to the girls as he dances with them, there's not much music. But there is romancing and light comedy and it makes for a pleasant way to spend some time.