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Sound Off (film)

January 01, 1970

Sound Off is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Richard Quine and starring Mickey Rooney, Anne James, John Archer and Gordon Jones. The film was shot in August 1951 in SuperCinecolor for Columbia Pictures.[1]

Sound Off
Original film poster
Directed byRichard Quine
Written byBlake Edwards
Richard Quine
Produced byJonie Taps
StarringMickey Rooney
Anne James
John Archer
CinematographyEllis W. Carter
Edited byCharles Nelson
Music byMorris Stoloff
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release dates
  • May 1952 (1952-05) (Los Angeles)
  • July 3, 1952 (1952-07-03) (United States)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

This was the first of a three-picture contract between Rooney and producer Jonie Taps for Columbia, in which Rooney was paid $75,000 for each picture. It is also the first collaboration between Richard Quine, Blake Edwards and Dick Crockett. The same team next collaborated with Rooney in the Navy in All Ashore made the following year. The three worked together again on Rooney's television series The Mickey Rooney Show/Hey, Mulligan in 1954–55.[2] Their final film in the Columbia contract was the black and white crime drama Drive a Crooked Road.

The film's title comes from the military cadence by Willie Lee Duckworth[3] that was a major 1951 chart hit for Vaughn Monroe.

Plot edit

An obnoxious nightclub comedian at Ciro's is drafted into the U.S. Army during the Korean War. At his arrival at his basic training he meets a WAC Lieutenant and romantically pursues her. His activities irritate his drill sergeant and the entire army when he goes AWOL (Absent Without Official Leave) for her. He is imprisoned and sentenced to thirty days hard labour that turns him into a soldier. Then he is shipped overseas to join the Special Services.

Cast edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Sound Off (1952)", Turner Classic Movies.
  2. ^ Tucker, David C. Lost Laughs of '50s and '60s Television: Thirty Sitcoms That Faded Off Screen, McFarland & Co., 2010, p. 131.
  3. ^ Boyd, Bill, Fat, Dumb, and Happy Down in Georgia, Mercer University Press, 1999, p. 201.

External links edit

  • Sound Off at IMDb  


 

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January 01, 1970
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