Ron,
I love JASON & THE ARGONAUTS (particularly it's great Bernard Herrman score and the fight with the skeletons).
THE EGYPTIAN I enjoyed despite its flaws...Edmund Purdom and Mr. Zanuck's pretty committment, Bella Darvi. I think it an earnest film but one that doesn't quite work. One wonders what it might have been with Brando who apparently turned down the Purdom role...but one can also see why Mr. Brando did. I think Victor Mature is often underrated. Michael Wilding is easily the best thing in the film along with Newman's score. I've had the novel on my bookshelf for years, but have never read it.
Another sort of in the sword and sandal category is the SON OF SINBAD, with Rory Calhoun (isn't he also the star of THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES?) and Vinny Price. A great piece of Arabian Nights hokum with lots of scantily-clad lovelies, notably stripper Lili St. Cyr.
I always enjoy these sword and sandal pictures but its tough to seperate all the various and sundry titles and interchangeable heroes: Sampson, Hercules, Maciste, Atlas. They all blur together so I have a tough time remembering which ones I've seen.