The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)

Cast

Complete credited 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 (as Bobby Blake)
	Ethel Griffies	...	Lady Stover
	Paul Harvey	...	Hotel Manager Thompson
	Mike Mazurki	...	Bass Player / Humphrey Rafferty
	Truman Bradley	...	Radio Announcer

Storyline

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. Written by Paul Penna <tterrace@wco.com>  

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