Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977)
"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to someone else!"
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.
- Date of release
- 1977-06-23
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Director
- Silvio Narizzano
Casting
- Bud Cort — Max Brown
- Samantha Eggar — Alice Field
- Chris Wiggins — Lyle Bishop
- Gary Reineke — Harris Montgomery
- John Friesen — Dave McDougall
- Michael J. Reynolds — Burt Fields
- Kenneth Griffith — Inspector Woods
- Scott Swan — Dan Trowbridge
- Merrilyn Gann — Sheila Barnes
- Norma West — Mrs. Bishop
- Margery Hill — Mrs. Montgomery
- Joanne McNeal — Mrs. McDougall
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