poster movie

Why Shoot the Teacher?

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

6.4 average rating
★★★★★
6.4
English / 100 MIN. / 1977

The Genres

The Synopsis

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.

The Cast

Bud CortSamantha EggarChris WigginsGary ReinekeJohn FriesenMichael J. ReynoldsKenneth GriffithScott SwanMerrilyn GannNorma WestMargery HillJoanne McNealGeorge GwinDoug BlakeAlan StebbingsJoe YasinskyVernis McCuaigRichard DavisonKathie BallJim DevereauxLyman PottsDale McGowanCurtis PetersonAndrea PaulsonDale CrowleWarren SulatyckyLarissa MacLeanMichael ZwiersKaren BernsteinJody HargravesRonald UrbanCynthia MacDonaldRick BremnessJennifer HillMichael RossMurray McCuneCathy Lynn VisteDavid FigenshawEd BellPhyllis Ellis

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