Ralph Nelson degenerated from a competent genre filmmaker to Stanley Kramer for the exploitation set. As derivative as it is poorly titled, ...tick...tick...tick... (1970) is a crude racial drama that mostly reminds viewers of other, better movies.Sheriff John Little (George Kennedy) surrenders his badge to Jimmy Price (Jim Brown), who's just beaten him in an election. Price faces the scorn of racist white townsfolk and the disapproval of fellow blacks. Things reach a boiling point when John Braddock (Bob Random), son of a local muckity-muck (Karl Swenson) kills a girl in an accident ...