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.
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Jack Benny as Athanael
Alexis Smith as Elizabeth
Dolores Moran as Violinist / Fran Blackstone
Allyn Joslyn as Second Trumpeter / Osidro
Reginald Gardiner as Composer / Archie Dexter
Guy Kibbee as Radio Director / The Chief
John Alexander as First Trumpeter / Doremus
Franklin Pangborn as Radio Engineer / Sloan
Margaret Dumont as Mme. Traviata / Miss Rodholder
Robert Blake as Junior Pulplinsky
Ethel Griffies as Lady Stover
Paul Harvey as Hotel Manager Thompson
Mike Mazurki as Bass Player / Humphrey Rafferty
Truman Bradley as Radio Announcer
Murray Alper as Hotel Bell Captain (uncredited)
Whit Bissell as Heavenly Piccolo Player (uncredited)
Oliver Blake as Photographer in Heaven (uncredited)
Monte Blue as The Chef (uncredited)
John Brown as Lou the waiter (uncredited)
James Burke as Policeman (uncredited)
Sidney Miller as Trumpet player (uncredited)
Francis Pierlot as Personnel Manager in Heaven (uncredited)