Film
The Horn Blows at Midnight
1945 · 1h 18m · Comedy · Fantasy · Music
The curfew blows at midnight but the laughs go on forever!!!
- IMDb
- 6.6
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 64%
- Metacritic
- 60
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Overview
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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Cast
Jack Benny
Athanael
Alexis Smith
Elizabeth
Dolores Moran
Violinist / Fran Blackstone
Allyn Joslyn
Second Trumpeter / Osidro
Reginald Gardiner
Composer / Archie Dexter
Guy Kibbee
Radio Director / The Chief
John Alexander
First Trumpeter / Doremus
Franklin Pangborn
Radio Engineer / Sloan
Margaret Dumont
Mme. Traviata / Miss Rodholder
Robert Blake
Junior Pulplinsky
Ethel Griffies
Lady Stover
Paul Harvey
Hotel Manager Thompson
Mike Mazurki
Bass Player / Humphrey Rafferty
Truman Bradley
Radio Announcer
Murray Alper
Hotel Bell Captain (uncredited)
Whit Bissell
Heavenly Piccolo Player (uncredited)
Crew
- Raoul WalshDirector
- Sam HellmanScreenplay
- James V. KernScreenplay
- Aubrey WisbergStory
- Mark HellingerProducer
- Jack L. WarnerExecutive Producer
- Sidney HickoxDirector of Photography
- Franz WaxmanOriginal Music Composer
- Irene MorraEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- April 28, 1945
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Rated
- NR
- Genres
- Comedy, Fantasy, Music
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