Bud Cort
Max Brown
Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977)
""Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to someone else!""
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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.
Silvio Narizzano
Director
James Defelice
Writer
Top Billed Cast
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
George Gwin
Dance Caller
Doug Blake
Percy Garfield
Alan Stebbings
Lester Sinclair
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