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  1. May 23, 2014 · The Horn Blows at Midnight. by Howie Good. Beckmann, half his face left unfinished, sitting in a sun-flooded room with a little cat, grimly eyeing a trumpet he holds as if wondering whether to sound it. But that was years ago. The toot came out nice and round. Strange black flowers painted on the sky by bursting ack-ack. Tonight I will try ...

  2. A band trumpeter falls asleep and dreams he's a bumbling archangel, on Earth to blow the note bringing the end of the world. But a pretty girl distracts him, and…A wild, high-gloss, well-cast fantasy farce, uniquely subversive in its lighthearted approach to biblical Doomsday.

  3. The Horn Blows at Midnight is a 1945 comedy fantasy film directed by Raoul Walsh, and starring Jack Benny. Following its poor box-office, Benny often exploited the film's failure for laughs over the next 20 years in his radio and television comedy series The Jack Benny Program, making the film a known entity to his audience, even if they had ...

  4. Aug 5, 2018 · The Horn Blows at Midnight. Synopsis: 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.

  5. Feb 13, 2020 · But rather than the toejam of ignorant studio flacks, The Horn Blows at Midnight is yet another example of the genius of the Hollywood system. A group of craftsmen were left to their own devices and created an anarchic absurdity.

  6. Forever one of comedy's reigning kings, the immortal Jack Benny trades in his royal scepter for a heavenly trumpet in this brilliant in this 1945 comedic fan...

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  8. Aug 25, 2021 · The Horn Blows at Midnight. by Dave Kehr January 18, 1985. Jack Benny made this 1945 box office dud into something of a legend over the years by constantly citing it as the film that sank...

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