The Horn Blows at Midnight

Though Jack Benny made a cottage industry out of joking about the purported rottenness of his 1945 vehicle Horn Blows at Midnght, the film is in fact a delightful comedy-fantasy-certainly not Benny's best film, but far from his worst. While dozing off during a radio broadcast, studio musician ...more

The Horn Blows at Midnight was released in 1945, the year that atomic weapons destroyed two cities in Japan, and the year that saw an end to 30 years of conflict that had twice required U.S. intervention. Perhaps this is why audiences weren't interested in buying tickets to an end-of-the-world farce. Or perhaps audiences were tired of the lightweight fantasy-comedies that had flourished during the war years. Whatever the reason, the movie's star, Jack Benny, turned failure into an asset, ...more