The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)

Guy Kibbee: Radio Director, The Chief

Quotes 

• The Chief : So, you're Emmanuel, huh?

  Athanael : Uh, Athanael, sir. Angel Junior grade, Third phalanx, 15th cohort.

  The Chief : Nothing wrong with your record.

  Athanael : I hope not, sir.

  The Chief : Application excellent. Deportment excellent. Kindness excellent. Virtue excellent. Monotonous!

  Athanael : Yes, sir.

  The Chief : That's for me to say!

• The Chief : Elizabeth, have we any report on that star missing from the big dipper?

  Elizabeth : It fell out, sir. They found it in the milky way.

• Athanael : I practice a lot in my spare time.

  The Chief : Yes, so I hear, *constantly*, from this female.

  Elizabeth : I've told the Chief how we study together, you with your trumpet and me with my harp.

  Athanael : You have, Elizabeth?

  Elizabeth : I told him how pleasant it is, just the two of us - and the music.

• Elizabeth : That's the planet Earth, sir.

  The Chief : Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. I created rather hurriedly, as I recall.

  Athanael : Just a six-day job, wasn't it?

  The Chief : Practically slapped together, you might say.

• The Chief : Usually when a planet goes berserk, it's our demolition expert who descends, blows his horn, and - poof.

  Athanael : Poof?

  The Chief : Just now, however, our demolition expert is disposing of one of the larger planets, so for this bit of destruction, I'm using you.

  Athanael : Me?

  The Chief : Yes, as the angel least likely to be missed.

• The Chief : Save your breath for the horn.

• The Chief : By the way, that must be blown at midnight sharp.

• The Chief : How could you ever recommend that hare-brained, horn-tooting nincompoop?