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Cornet at Night
“A memory of boyhood on a northern Saskatchewan farm.”
7.5 / 10• 1963• 14m•NR• English
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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.
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Stanley Jackson's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Cornet at Night is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
