Cornet at Night

• Movies
• 1963-01-01
• EN
• Released
• 0h 14m
• CA
• Drama - Family

• 8.0
• 1

Production

ONF | NFB

Tagline

A memory of boyhood on a northern Saskatchewan farm.

Storyline

Based on a short story by Sinclair Ross, this short film recalls rural life on the Prairies in the 1930s. In the film a farmer's young son, sent to town to hire a man for the harvest, readily accepts when an itinerant trumpet player, down on his luck, begs a chance. He is hardly the kind of man the boy's father had in mind, but that night his trumpet speaks from the shadows and everyone pauses to listen.