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. In R.P.M. the politics are more overt, and Kramer deftly 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
