Sound Off (film)
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| Directed by | Richard Quine |
| Produced by | Jonie Taps |
| Written by | Blake Edwards Richard Quine |
| Starring | Mickey Rooney Anne James |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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| Language | English |
Sound Off is a 1952 comedy film featuring several songs, filmed in SuperCinecolor for Columbia Pictures and starring Mickey Rooney. The film was shot in August 1951.[1] The film was the first of a three-picture contract between Rooney and producer Jonie Taps for Columbia where 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 Absent without Official Leave for her. He is imprisoned and sentenced to thirty days hard labour that turns him into a soldier. At the end of the film he is shipped overseas to join the Special Services.
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
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Sound Off at IMDb
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