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1945 Comedy Fantasy Music 1h 18m

The Horn Blows at Midnight

"The curfew blows at midnight but the laughs go on forever!!!"

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.

5.7 TMDB RATING
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Principal 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)

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