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The Horn Blows at Midnight

The Horn Blows at Midnight1945

★5.978 minComedyFantasyMusic

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.

Director

Writer

James V. Kern Aubrey Wisberg Sam Hellman

Score

Stars

Jack Benny Alexis Smith Dolores Moran

Cast28

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)
Whit Bissell
as Heavenly Piccolo Player (uncredited)
Oliver Blake
as Photographer in Heaven (uncredited)
Monte Blue
as The Chef (uncredited)
John Brown
as Lou the waiter (uncredited)
James Burke
as Policeman (uncredited)
Sidney Miller
as Trumpet player (uncredited)
Francis Pierlot
as Personnel Manager in Heaven (uncredited)
L
Larry Rio
as Slippy Tompkins (uncredited)
H
Harry Rosenthal
as Sherman Starr (uncredited)
Anabel Shaw
as Telephone Operator (uncredited)
B
Buddy Swan
as Kid (uncredited)
Betty Alexander
as Angel (uncredited)
Virginia Patton
as Party Girl (uncredited)

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