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Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977)

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

100 minDramaComedy
TMDb6.3/106 votes

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.

Country: Canada

Director: Silvio Narizzano

Cast

Bud Cort as Max Brown

Bud Cort

Max Brown

Samantha Eggar as Alice Field

Samantha Eggar

Alice Field

Chris Wiggins as Lyle Bishop

Chris Wiggins

Lyle Bishop

Gary Reineke as Harris Montgomery

Gary Reineke

Harris Montgomery

John Friesen as Dave McDougall

John Friesen

Dave McDougall

Michael J. Reynolds as Burt Fields

Michael J. Reynolds

Burt Fields

Kenneth Griffith as Inspector Woods

Kenneth Griffith

Inspector Woods

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Scott Swan

Dan Trowbridge

Merrilyn Gann as Sheila Barnes

Merrilyn Gann

Sheila Barnes

Norma West as Mrs. Bishop

Norma West

Mrs. Bishop

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Margery Hill

Mrs. Montgomery

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Joanne McNeal

Mrs. McDougall

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George Gwin

Dance Caller

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Doug Blake

Percy Garfield

Keywords

Plot:isolationteacherprairieschoolhouse
Time:great depression

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