

The Horn Blows at Midnight
DirectorRaoul Walsh
“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.
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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
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