Cornet at Night

Movie"A memory of boyhood on a northern Saskatchewan farm"
Audience Score
80
Cornet at Night
NR 14 minDrama, Family
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Based on a short story by Sinclair Ross this short film recalls rural life on the Prairies in the 1930s In the film a farmers 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 boys father had in mind but that night his trumpet speaks from the shadows and everyone pauses to listen