Cornet at Night

Directed by Stanley Jackson · Starring David Blair · 1963

Sent to town to hire a harvest hand, a farm boy on the 1930s Prairies brings back a down-on-his-luck trumpet player instead, whose music stops everyone that night.

A gentle Prairie tale about how a few notes of music can open a child's world.

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 tr

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