The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
The curfew blows at midnight but the laughs go on forever!!!
78 min
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.
- Release date
- April 28, 1945
- Country of origin
- United States
Where to watch
Free with ads
Plex
Plex Channel
Tubi TV
Cast
- Jack Benny as Athanael
- Alexis Smith as Elizabeth
- Dolores Moran as Violinist
- Allyn Joslyn as Second Trumpeter
- Reginald Gardiner as Composer
- Guy Kibbee as Radio Director
- John Alexander as First Trumpeter
- Franklin Pangborn as Radio Engineer
- Margaret Dumont as Mme. Traviata
- Robert Blake as Junior Poplinski
- 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)
- Larry Rio as Slippy Tompkins (uncredited)
- Harry Rosenthal as Sherman Starr (uncredited)
- Anabel Shaw as Telephone Operator (uncredited)
- Buddy Swan as Kid (uncredited)
- Betty Alexander as Angel (uncredited)
- Virginia Patton as Party Girl (uncredited)
- Dolores Moran as Fran Blackstone
- Allyn Joslyn as Osidro
- Reginald Gardiner as Archibald 'Archie' Dexter
- Guy Kibbee as The Chief
- John Alexander as Doremus
- Franklin Pangborn as Sloan - House Detective
- Margaret Dumont as Miss Rodholder
Crew
- Raoul Walsh · Director
- Sam Hellman · Writer
- James V. Kern · Writer
- Aubrey Wisberg · Writer
- Mark Hellinger · Producer
- Franz Waxman · Composer
- Sidney Hickox · Cinematographer
- Irene Morra · Editor