Cornet at Night

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.