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. 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. Their final film in the Columbia contract was the black and white crime drama
Drive a Crooked Road.