THE HORN BLOWS AT MIDNIGHT (1945) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Raoul Walsh
Jack Benny, Alexis Smith, Dolores Moran,
Allyn Joslyn, Reginald Gardiner, Margaret Dumont,
John Alexander, Guy Kibbee, Franklin Pangborn
A comic fantasy starring Jack Benny as an angel named Athaniel, dispatched to earth to blow four notes on a trumpet and touch off the end of the world. This was Benny's last major movie role. In later years, it became one of his long-running jokes, the joke being that his movie career would've lasted a lot longer if he'd never made "The Horn Blows At Midnight". The movie's not that bad. Really.
