Trivia for
The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945) More at IMDbPro »

• For the rest of his career Jack Benny used the failure of this movie as one of his best jokes.
  
  
• Adapted as a one-hour radio play for "The Ford Theater".
  
  
• Several references erroneously credit John Garfield with a cameo appearance as a flutist in the heavenly orchestra sequence. The flutist in question bears a minor resemblance to Garfield, but is not he.
  
  
• In 1949 Jack Benny reprised his role as Athanael on radio for The Ford Theater's production of THBAM. Claude Rains also appeared in the program.
  
  
• Jack Benny's last starring role.
  
  
• The sequence toward the end, where the cast is at the side of the building and Benny battles the Paradise Coffee moving ad, was scored by Warmers composer Carl W. Stalling, using his trademark violin string up-slide twang sound and his paraphrasing of the work of Raymond Scott. Stalling was used to give the scene a Warner Brothers cartoon feel.
  
  

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