The Horn Blows at Midnight

The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945) is a comedy fantasy starring Jack Benny, directed by Raoul Walsh and co-starring Alexis Smith, Dolores Moran, Allyn Joslyn, and Reginald Gardiner. Its biggest claim to fame, apart from its star, is its failure at the box office, and this fact was exploited often for laughs in Benny's popular radio comedy series The Jack Benny Program. The plot involves the third trumpet player in the orchestra of a radio program,... more

The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945) is a comedy fantasy starring Jack Benny, directed by Raoul Walsh and co-starring Alexis Smith, Dolores Moran, Allyn Joslyn, and Reginald Gardiner. Its biggest claim to fame, apart from its star, is its failure at the box office, and this fact was exploited often for laughs in Benny's popular radio comedy series The Jack Benny Program. The plot involves the third trumpet player in the orchestra of a radio program, named the Paradise Coffee Program, who falls asleep listening to the reading of the advertisement: "The coffee that makes you sleep." He dreams he is the angel Athanael, a trumpeter in the orchestra of heaven, who is such a terrible musician that he is relieved of his position and sent on a mission to Earth to blow the "Last Trumpet" at midnight, signaling the end of the world. Complications arise when two fallen angels named Osidro and Doremus want to continue their physical existence of pursuing pleasures. While Athanael encounters... less