… tick… tick… tick…

… tick… tick… tick… (1970)

Two men with nothing in common but the hate that surrounds them.

Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.

Date of release
1970-01-09
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (29)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Drama, Action
Director
Ralph Nelson

Casting

Interesting facts

Tick, Tick, Tick, stylized as ...tick...tick...tick..., is an American crime drama film directed by Ralph Nelson and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1970. Racially provocative for its time, the film stars Jim Brown in the role of a black man elected as the sheriff of a rural county in the American South. It has become something of a cult classic for its cutting-edge portrayal of racial relations and its tense narrative. It was the first MGM film released in the 1970s.

Production

Screenwriter and producer James Lee Barrett also created the television adaptation of In the Heat of the Night.

The film's lead was played by Jim Brown, who had recently retired as a professional football player. Brown and George Kennedy had previously appeared together in the war film The Dirty Dozen. Another co-star, Bernie Casey, had played in the National Football League from 1961 to 1968, his career intersecting with that of Brown, who was an NFL star from 1957 to 1965.

It was the penultimate film appearance of screen legend Fredric March.

It was made in and around Colusa, California. The town's central courthouse square was remodeled to appear like those found in the American South. The same courthouse was also used for exterior shots in the 1962 classic To Kill a Mockingbird.

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