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When he is deposited at the Hotel Universe via the building's elevator, he accidentally foils a robbery attempt by suave guest Archie Dexter (Reginald Gardiner) and his girlfriend accomplice, Fran Blackstone (Dolores Moran). Dexter blames Fran and breaks off their relationship.
While dangling at the end of a chain of people, Athanael drops into a huge coffee cup that is part of an advertisement. He hears the clock strike midnight and is about to blow his horn when he tumbles out of the coffee cup and wakes to discover that he has been dreaming the entire event.
- Raoul Walsh, Hugh Cummings
- Jack Benny
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.
Feb 13, 2020 · The Horn Blows at Midnight avoided accusations of blasphemy in the Production Code era by framing the story as Benny’s dream, after he zonks out on stage during rehearsals for a dreary radio program sponsored by “Paradise Coffee”. The movie was briefly banned in England, but no serious objections were raised in the States that I could find.
With Jack Benny, Alexis Smith, Dolores Moran, Allyn Joslyn. 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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- Comedy, Fantasy, Music
- Raoul Walsh
Nov 26, 2020 · A: In The Horn Blows at Midnight, Jack Benny plays the angel trumpeter Athanael, who is sent to Earth to blow the note that will signal the apocalypse. He arrives via elevator into a swinging hotel whose occupants include a gentleman thief and his seductive girlfriend accomplice plus two fallen angels now settled into the decadent pleasures of ...
The Horn Blows at Midnight is a 1945 comedy fantasy film directed by Raoul Walsh, and starring Jack Benny. Following its poor box-office, Benny often exploited the film's failure for laughs over the next 20 years in his radio and television comedy series The Jack Benny Program, making the film a...
