Parasite
2019 · Comedy · Thriller
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Film / 1977
Why Shoot the Teacher?
Directed by
Silvio Narizzano
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 …
The story
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.
Cast
Bud CortMax Brown
Samantha EggarAlice Field
Chris WigginsLyle Bishop
Gary ReinekeHarris Montgomery
John FriesenDave McDougall
Michael J. ReynoldsBurt Fields
Kenneth GriffithInspector Woods
Scott SwanDan Trowbridge
Merrilyn GannSheila Barnes
Norma WestMrs. Bishop
Margery HillMrs. Montgomery
Joanne McNealMrs. McDougall
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George GwinDance Caller
Doug BlakePercy Garfield
Alan StebbingsLester Sinclair
Joe YasinskyMax's Father
Vernis McCuaigMax's Mother
Richard DavisonMax's Brother
Kathie BallLouise Brown - Max's Sister
Jim DevereauxTrain Conductor
Lyman PottsRadio Announcer (voice)
Dale McGowanJake Stevenson
Curtis PetersonJohn Stevenson
Andrea PaulsonAnne McDougall
Dale CrowleMyron McDougall
Warren SulatyckyCharlie McDougall
Larissa MacLeanPearlie Sinclair
Michael ZwiersSammy Sinclair
Karen BernsteinViolet Sinclair
Jody HargravesCathy Friesen
Ronald UrbanPaul Friesen
Cynthia MacDonaldMary Field
Rick BremnessBill Field
Jennifer HillSummer Littlewood
Michael RossAlan Littlewood
Murray McCuneBob Sanderson
Cathy Lynn VisteBetty Bishop
David FigenshawCarl Wells
Ed BellDan Smith (uncredited)
Phyllis EllisRita Danchuk
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