Desc: Why Shoot the Teacher?: Directed by Silvio Narizzano. With Bud Cort, Samantha Eggar, Chris Wiggins, Gary Reineke. 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.