Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977) DVD-R

Starring Bud Cort, Samantha Eggar, Chris Wiggins, Gary Reineke, John Friesen
Directed by Silvio Narizzano
Print: Color
Runtime: 100 min
Genre: Drama

In the 1930's, Max Brown is an urban young man from an Eastern province, fresh from college, whose only job offer is in a one-room school house in the Canadian prairie. At first he's distant, superior, lonely, and bewildered; his students are rebellious. Over the course of the year, he is drawn to Alice Field, the wife of a farmer, in a love that can lead nowhere. But, he and his students connect, a connection that matters and lasts.