R. P. M. (1970)

Original title

R.P.M.

Directed by

Stanley Kramer

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A college professor is forced to become the acting president of his university during a student protest. He must negotiate with the radical students while dealing with his younger girlfriend and the conservative faculty.

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What happens

R. P. M. is a 1970 American drama film directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Anthony Quinn and Ann-Margret. As the film's poster notes, the title is an initialism for "revolutions per minute", which at the time was a common term for the variable speed of a record player's turntable and generally a unit of rotational speed for rotating machines. It is a reference to students' smoke-filled drinking parties and how in the 1960s students evolved politically so quickly that they went through many political revolutions in little time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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