Ford Theater 49-03-04 (61) The Horn Blows at Midnight

The Horn Blows at Midnight from The Ford Theater aired March 4, 1949 starring Jack Benny in a comedy fantasy. The story concerns a trumpet player (Benny) in love with a harpist who gets him a radio job on the Paradise Coffee Program, which advertises a coffee that promises a gentle sleep and sweet dreams. Jack dreams he is an angel sent to earth to blow the trumpet that will destroy the world. Though Jack Benny made a cottage industry out of joking about the purported rottenness of his 1945 film Horn Blows at Midnight, the film was in fact a delightful comedy-fantasy. This 1949 radio version of the Sam Hellman-James V. Kern screenplay is quite different, with a more sentimental and meaningful finale. A Comedy Classic.

Ford Theater 49-03-04 (61) The Horn Blows at Midnight