The Horn Blows at Midnight
- IMDb link: 0037790
- IMDb rating: 6.6 (1,653 votes) Search
- Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
- Director: Raoul Walsh
- Cast: Jack Benny, Alexis Smith, Dolores Moran, Allyn Joslyn and others
- Release date: 28 Apr 1945
- Release year: 1945
- Runtime: 78 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: screwball comedy, radio announcer, reference to the apocalypse, late night radio, attempted robbery, interrupted suicide attempt, crying woman, jitterbug dancer, archangel, attempted suicide
Plot
Storyline
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.
Falling asleep during the Paradise Coffee ("The Coffee that Makes You Sleep") Program, the band's third trumpeter dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth. But Osidro and Doremus, two fallen angels enjoying the physical pleasures of an earthly existence, try to steal Athanael's trumpet, enlisting the aid of suave jewel thief Archie Dexter. Athanael fumbles his first try when he saves Archie's accomplice, Fran, from suicide. His second chance seems doomed when he's forced to leave his trumpet as security for a meal he can't pay for. But he gets it back just in time for a final confrontation with his desperate adversaries, dangling with them from the roof, only seconds from Midnight.
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