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The Horn Blows at Midnight is a 1945 comedy fantasy film directed by Raoul Walsh, and starring Jack Benny. Following its poor box-office, Benny often exploited the film's failure for laughs over the next 20 years in his radio and television comedy series The Jack Benny Program, making the film a known entity to his audience, even if they had ...
With Jack Benny, Alexis Smith, Dolores Moran, Allyn Joslyn. 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.
- (1.5K)
- Comedy, Fantasy, Music
- Raoul Walsh
Synopsis. After the third trumpet player in a radio station orchestra falls asleep during a lulling coffee commercial, he dreams he is the angel Athanael, third trumpet player in the heavenly orchestra. One day Athanael is summoned to the Department of Small Planet Management.
- Raoul Walsh, Hugh Cummings
- Jack Benny
The Horn Blows at Midnight. Forever one of comedy's reigning kings, the immortal Jack Benny trades in his royal scepter for a heavenly trumpet in this brilliant in this 1945 comedic fantasy...
- 3 min
- 11.3K
- Warner Bros.
May 24, 2024 · angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth. But Osidro and Doremus, two fallen angels enjoying the physical pleasures of an earthly existence, try to steal Athanael's trumpet,
A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's the angel Athanael. The beautiful angel Elizabeth delivers Athanael to the head of heaven's orchestra, where he's told to return to earth and blow his trumpet at midnight, thus marking the end of the world.
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