Stella @ Sixth & I Synagogue (+ Afterparty with a "Wet Hot American Summer Screening")Film Screening: The Horn Blows at Midnight @ Library of Congress
by Svetlana 
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| September 11, 2008 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
free
details here:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/pickford/pickford-current.html
National Film Registry (Audience Request)
The Horn Blows at Midnight (Warner Bros., 1945). Dir Raoul Walsh. Wrt Sam Hellman, James V. Kern, from an idea by Aubrey Wisberg. With Jack Benny, Alexis Smith, Dolores Moran, Allyn Joslyn, Reginald Gardiner, Guy Kibbee, John Alexander. (80 min, b&w, 35mm)
“If you ever saw it in the movies you’d never believe it,” exclaims Jack Benny in the film’s final line, commenting on his exploits as an angel sent to destroy Earth by blowing the trumpet at midnight. Benny often joked how the film was so bad that it ended his movie career, and it was indeed his final feature. A reevaluation of this much maligned work has been long overdue, and we are presenting it as a National Film Registry candidate at the request of members of the Pickford audience. To nominate a film for the Registry and have it considered for a screening at the Pickford Theater, please go to NFR Nominations (link to < http://www.loc.gov/film/vote.html >). (ZS)
