Why Shoot the Teacher?

Why Shoot the Teacher?
1977DramaComedy100 mins

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 ... read more

  • Silvio Narizzano

    Director

  • James Defelice

    Writer

  • Max Braithwaite

    Book

  • Marc Champion

    Director of Photography

  • Stan Cole

    Editor

  • Bud Cort

    Max Brown

  • 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

  • Joe Yasinsky

    Max's Father

  • Vernis McCuaig

    Max's Mother

  • Richard Davison

    Max's Brother

  • Kathie Ball

    Louise Brown - Max's Sister

  • Jim Devereaux

    Train Conductor

  • Phyllis Ellis

    Rita Danchuk

  • Lyman Potts

    Radio Announcer (voice)

  • Dale McGowan

    Jake Stevenson

  • Curtis Peterson

    John Stevenson

  • Andrea Paulson

    Anne McDougall

  • Dale Crowle

    Myron McDougall

  • Warren Sulatycky

    Charlie McDougall

  • Larissa MacLean

    Pearlie Sinclair

  • Michael Zwiers

    Sammy Sinclair

  • Karen Bernstein

    Violet Sinclair

  • Jody Hargraves

    Cathy Friesen

  • Ronald Urban

    Paul Friesen

  • Cynthia MacDonald

    Mary Field

  • Rick Bremness

    Bill Field

  • Jennifer Hill

    Summer Littlewood

  • Michael Ross

    Alan Littlewood

  • Murray McCune

    Bob Sanderson

  • Cathy Lynn Viste

    Betty Bishop

  • David Figenshaw

    Carl Wells

  • Ed Bell

    Dan Smith (uncredited)

  • Runtime

    100 minutes

    Released

    1977-06-23

    Languages

    English

    Countries

    Canada

    Studios

    Lancer Productions Limited

    Fraser Films

    Canadian Film Development Corporation

    Famous Players

    Sound

  • Rick Hyslop

    Music

  • Updated

    126 days ago

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