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Why Shoot the Teacher?

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

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Why Shoot the Teacher? — Plot

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.

  • Release date
  • June 23, 1977
  • Runtime
  • 100 min
  • Genres
  • Drama, Comedy
  • Director
  • Silvio Narizzano

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Why Shoot the Teacher? — Cast

Bud Cort photo Bud Cort Max Brown Samantha Eggar photo Samantha Eggar Alice Field Chris Wiggins photo Chris Wiggins Lyle Bishop Gary Reineke photo Gary Reineke Harris Montgomery John Friesen photo John Friesen Dave McDougall Michael J. Reynolds photo Michael J. Reynolds Burt Fields Kenneth Griffith photo Kenneth Griffith Inspector Woods Scott Swan Dan Trowbridge

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