Why Shoot the Teacher?

Why Shoot the Teacher?

1977/06/23 • $81 • Released • English

Drama
Comedy
5.7
1h 40m

"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to someone else!"

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 : Silvio Narizzano

Casts
Bud Cort

Bud Cort

Max Brown

Samantha Eggar

Samantha Eggar

Alice Field

Chris Wiggins

Chris Wiggins

Lyle Bishop

Gary Reineke

Gary Reineke

Harris Montgomery

John Friesen

John Friesen

Dave McDougall

Michael J. Reynolds

Michael J. Reynolds

Burt Fields

Kenneth Griffith

Kenneth Griffith

Inspector Woods

Scott Swan

Dan Trowbridge

Merrilyn Gann

Merrilyn Gann

Sheila Barnes

Norma West

Norma West

Mrs. Bishop

Margery Hill

Mrs. Montgomery

Joanne McNeal

Mrs. McDougall

George Gwin

Dance Caller

Doug Blake

Percy Garfield

Alan Stebbings

Lester Sinclair

Joe Yasinsky

Max's Father

Vernis McCuaig

Max's Mother

Richard Davison

Max's Brother

Kathie Ball

Louise Brown - Max's Sister

Jim Devereaux

Train Conductor

Phyllis Ellis

Rita Danchuk

Lyman Potts

Radio Announcer (voice)

Dale McGowan

Jake Stevenson

Curtis Peterson

John Stevenson

Andrea Paulson

Anne McDougall

Dale Crowle

Myron McDougall

Warren Sulatycky

Warren Sulatycky

Charlie McDougall

Larissa MacLean

Pearlie Sinclair

Michael Zwiers

Sammy Sinclair

Karen Bernstein

Karen Bernstein

Violet Sinclair

Jody Hargraves

Cathy Friesen

Ronald Urban

Paul Friesen

Cynthia MacDonald

Mary Field

Rick Bremness

Bill Field

Jennifer Hill

Jennifer Hill

Summer Littlewood

Michael Ross

Alan Littlewood

Murray McCune

Bob Sanderson

Cathy Lynn Viste

Betty Bishop

David Figenshaw

Carl Wells

Ed Bell

Dan Smith (uncredited)

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