The Horn Blows at Midnight

Name: The Horn Blows at Midnight
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Released: 1945
Duration: 78 min
Rating: 5.864

1945 · 78 min

Comedy · Fantasy · Music

★ 5.9

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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.

Crew

Director Raoul Walsh
Screenplay Sam Hellman
Screenplay James V. Kern
Story Aubrey Wisberg
Director of Photography Sidney Hickox

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

Crew

Director — Raoul Walsh
Screenplay — Sam Hellman
Screenplay — James V. Kern
Story — Aubrey Wisberg
Director of Photography — Sidney Hickox

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