Why Shoot the Teacher?
"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to someone else!"
100 mins
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.
Scott Swan
Dan Trowbridge
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
Larissa MacLean
Pearlie Sinclair
Michael Zwiers
Sammy Sinclair
Jody Hargraves
Cathy Friesen
Ronald Urban
Paul Friesen
Cynthia MacDonald
Mary Field
Rick Bremness
Bill Field
Michael Ross
Alan Littlewood
Murray McCune
Bob Sanderson
Cathy Lynn Viste
Betty Bishop
David Figenshaw
Carl Wells
Ed Bell
Dan Smith (uncredited)
Marc Champion
Director of Photography
Fil Fraser
Executive Producer
Mike Cheda
Associate Producer
Stan Cole
Editor
Eva Langbord
Casting
Karen Bromley
Art Direction
Rick Hyslop
Music
Nolan Roberts
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Max Braithwaite
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