Why Shoot the Teacher?

"EVERYTHING IS FUNNY, AS LONG AS IT'S HAPPENING TO SOMEONE ELSE!"

6.3/10 1977 4K 100 min

Drama • Comedy

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.

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Why Shoot the Teacher?

Top Cast

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

Scott Swan

Dan Trowbridge

Merrilyn Gann

Merrilyn Gann

Sheila Barnes

Norma West

Norma West

Mrs. Bishop

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