...tick... tick... tick... et la violence explosa !

Original title: ...tick... tick... tick...

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6.7/10

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Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected Sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the deep south.

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Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected Sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the deep south.Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected Sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the deep south.Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected Sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the deep south.

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

1.4K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
Most of the original soundtrack which had been recorded by the Glaser Brothers was removed in 1972 when this movie made its television debut. It was redubbed with the soundtrack from A Time to Sing (1968), performed by Hank Williams, Jr.

Goofs
Rather than worry about calling in federal troops or deputizing men to help with his security problem concerning Braddock junior, Price could have and should have called in the state police for assistance.

Quotes
[Last lines]
John Little: Come next November, I'm going to run your legs off.
Jimmy Price: I'm not going to stand for Sheriff next year
John Little: Why not?
Jimmy Price: My brother, he's going to run for Sheriff.
[pause]
Jimmy Price: I'm going to run for Mayor.

Crazy credits
A clock is ticking during the opening credits. With each tick one word of the credits is added.

Connections
Featured in The Dick Cavett Show: Helen Gurley Brown/Jim Brown/Little Richard/Scott Gourlay/Skeeter Vaughan (1970)

Soundtracks
Theme from ...tick...tick...tick... (Set Yourself Free)
Words and Music by Willis Hoover (as Hoover)

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Featured review

8/10

Surprisingly good

Film-critic Leonard Maltin called this "a poor man's In the Heat of the Night", which sounds like an easy way to dismiss a movie that is actually quite good on it's own terms, and not really anywhere close "In the Heat of the Night" story-wise (except for the part of white southerners learning to respect a black man).

In my opinion, Jim Brown is one of the coolest athletes-turned-actors of his generation. Sure, he's no Sidney Poitier, but who is? Here he's given one of the best parts of his career, and he even gets great support from a number of wonderful actors, notably the legendary Fredric March, who chews the scenery as a quarrelsome old mayor and George Kennedy as the former sheriff (and I guess this movie's equivalent to Rod Steiger if Leonard Maltin had a say in it). Don Stroud (whatever happened to his career?) is creepy as a racist ex-deputy and any fan of Clifton James should get a kick out of his part, as a leading klan-member who in the end turns out to be one of the main characters in the plot, and not such a bad guy after all.

A surprisingly engaging movie, at times quite gripping, with inspired direction by Ralph Nelson and a show of force from a first-rate cast.

7.5/10