Stanley Kramer and the limits of liberalism
Three movies from producer-director Stanley Kramer, spread across two decades, highlight his liberal sensibilities … and expose the limits of that liberalism in the face of a messy […]
Review: R.P.M.* (*Revolutions Per Minute) (1970)
Director: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Ann-Margret, Gary Lockwood, Paul Winfield, Graham Jarvis,
Anthony Quinn
Ann-Margret
Gary Lockwood
Paul Winfield
Graham Jarvis
Plot: R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the hedy days of campus activism in the late 1960s. Radical students take over the college, the president resigns, and Quinn's character, who has always been a champion of student activism, is appointed president. As the students continue to push the envelope of revolution, Quinn's character is faced with the challenge of restoring order or abetting the descent into anarchy.
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