The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)

Name: The Horn Blows at Midnight
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Released: 1945-04-28
Duration: 78 min
Cast: Jack Benny, Alexis Smith, Dolores Moran, Allyn Joslyn, Reginald Gardiner

The curfew blows at midnight but the laughs go on forever!!!

A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth, thus marking the end of the world.

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Released 1945-04-28 · 78 min · Comedy, Fantasy, Music

Directed by Raoul Walsh

Cast

Jack Benny as Athanael
Alexis Smith as Elizabeth
Dolores Moran as Violinist / Fran Blackstone
Allyn Joslyn as Second Trumpeter / Osidro
Reginald Gardiner as Composer / Archie Dexter
Guy Kibbee as Radio Director / The Chief
John Alexander as First Trumpeter / Doremus
Franklin Pangborn as Radio Engineer / Sloan
Margaret Dumont as Mme. Traviata / Miss Rodholder
Robert Blake as Junior Pulplinsky
Ethel Griffies as Lady Stover
Paul Harvey as Hotel Manager Thompson
Mike Mazurki as Bass Player / Humphrey Rafferty
Truman Bradley as Radio Announcer
Murray Alper as Hotel Bell Captain (uncredited)