Why Shoot the Teacher?
"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to someone else!"
1977 · 1h 40m · PG
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Silvio Narizzano
Overview
It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a one room schoolhouse. He quickly realizes that this is not a dream situation: the winter is harsher than he's ever experienced, he's living in the basement of the school, the older of his students treat him poorly and his wages are paltry if and when he ever does get paid.
Director and cast
- Silvio Narizzano Director
- Bud Cort as Max Brown
- Samantha Eggar as Alice Field
- Chris Wiggins as Lyle Bishop
- Gary Reineke as Harris Montgomery
- John Friesen as Dave McDougall
- Michael J. Reynolds as Burt Fields
- Kenneth Griffith as Inspector Woods
- Scott Swan as Dan Trowbridge
- Merrilyn Gann as Sheila Barnes
- Norma West as Mrs. Bishop
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