Studio: Sony Pictures Releasing
Rating: M
Running time: 92 minutes
Available Formats: 16mm, DVD
Stanley Kramer had a knack for tackling stories where social change is the background for compelling drama on a personal level, as in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and The Defiant Ones. But in R.P.M. the politics are more pronounced. Kramer takes on the counter culture of the late 60s to explore how change impacts the individual. Anthony Quinn is the liberal and well regarded college professor in a period of increasing radicalism. His students demand change, and he supports their desires, but when his role of professor and advisor changes to college administrator, he must decide where to draw the line. Ann Margret, Gary Lockwood and Paul Winfield also star in this powerful examination of campus life in its most dynamic stage in history.