Film · 1962 · Films · 1960s
The Intruder
Scored from 62 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
Adam Cramer, a smooth agitator in a white suit, steps off a bus into the small Southern town of Caxton just as a court order integrates its high school. Claiming to represent a patriotic reform organisation, he works the white townspeople from porches and street corners, courting the newspaper editor's daughter while stirring resentment against the ten Black students about to enroll. The editor prints against him and a travelling salesman at Cramer's boarding house sees through the act, but the rallies keep growing. Roger Corman directed this black-and-white drama on location in Missouri, from Charles Beaumont's adaptation of his own novel; William Shatner plays Cramer.
Released in 1962, The Intruder is a drama film. It was made in the United States. The runtime is 84 minutes.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 53 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 1,928 other films from the 1960s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Only 62 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 63 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where The Intruder lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1960s (1,929 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 62.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
