Overview
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.
DirectorStanley Jackson
ProducersPeter Jones
ScreenplayStanley Jackson
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LanguageEnglish
Production companiesONF | NFB
Homepagehttps://nfb.ca/film/cornet_at_night
TaglineA memory of boyhood on a northern Saskatchewan farm.
