Comedy / Fantasy / Music /

Score: 58%( 19 votes )

Overview: A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth, thus marking the end of the world.

Cast:

Jack Benny
Athanael

Alexis Smith
Elizabeth

Dolores Moran
Violinist / Fran Blackstone

Allyn Joslyn
Second Trumpeter / Osidro

Reginald Gardiner
Composer / Archie Dexter

Guy Kibbee
Radio Director / The Chief

John Alexander
First Trumpeter / Doremus

Franklin Pangborn
Radio Engineer / Sloan

Margaret Dumont
Mme. Traviata / Miss Rodholder

Robert Blake
Junior Pulplinsky

Ethel Griffies
Lady Stover

Paul Harvey
Hotel Manager Thompson

Mike Mazurki
Bass Player / Humphrey Rafferty

Truman Bradley
Radio Announcer

Murray Alper
Hotel Bell Captain (uncredited)

Whit Bissell
Heavenly Piccolo Player (uncredited)

Oliver Blake
Photographer in Heaven (uncredited)

Monte Blue
The Chef (uncredited)

John Brown
Lou the waiter (uncredited)

James Burke
Policeman (uncredited)

Sidney Miller
Trumpet player (uncredited)

Francis Pierlot
Personnel Manager in Heaven (uncredited)

Larry Rio
Slippy Tompkins (uncredited)

Harry Rosenthal
Sherman Starr (uncredited)

Anabel Shaw
Telephone Operator (uncredited)

Buddy Swan
Kid (uncredited)

Betty Alexander
Angel (uncredited)

Virginia Patton
Party Girl (uncredited)