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Sound Off (film) - Wikipedia

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Sound Off
Original film poster
Directed by	Richard Quine
Written by	Blake Edwards Richard Quine
Produced by	Jonie Taps
Starring	Mickey Rooney Anne James John Archer
Cinematography	Ellis W. Carter
Edited by	Charles Nelson
Music by	Morris Stoloff
Production company	Columbia Pictures
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	May 1952 (1952-05) (Los Angeles) July 3, 1952 (1952-07-03) (United States)
Running time	83 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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]

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

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

Mickey Rooney as Mike Donnelly
Anne James as Lt. Rafferty
John Archer as Maj. Whitlock
Gordon Jones as Sgt. Crockett
Sammy White as Joey Kirby
Wally Cassell as Tony Baccigalupi
Paul Bryar as George - Headwaiter
Helen Ford as Mrs. Rafferty
Mary Lou Geer as Evelyn Ames
Marshall Reed as Capt. Fred Karger
Arthur Space as Barney Fisher
Sue Casey as Showgirl
Rosalee Calvert as Showgirl
Joanne Jordan as Showgirl
Joan Shawlee as Showgirl
Diana Mumby as Showgirl
Emil Sitka as Waiter
Ruth Warren as Billy's Mother
Boyd "Red" Morgan as Red, Military Policeman
Harry Lauter as Laughing Corporal

References

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

External links

Sound Off at IMDb

Films directed by Richard Quine

Leather Gloves (1948)
Sunny Side of the Street (1951)
Purple Heart Diary (1951)
Sound Off (1952)
Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1952)
All Ashore (1953)
Siren of Bagdad (1953)
Cruisin' Down the River (1953)
Drive a Crooked Road (1954)
Pushover (1954)
So This Is Paris (1954)
My Sister Eileen (1955)
The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)
Full of Life (1956)
Operation Mad Ball (1957)
Bell, Book and Candle (1958)
It Happened to Jane (1959)
Strangers When We Meet (1960)
The World of Suzie Wong (1960)
The Notorious Landlady (1962)
Paris When It Sizzles (1964)
Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
Synanon (1965)
Hotel (1967)
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad (1967)
A Talent for Loving (1969)
The Moonshine War (1970)
W (1974)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1979)

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