Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.
Stars: Van Heflin, Susan Hayward, Boris Karloff, Julie London, Whitfield Connor, Ward Bond
Crew: George Marshall (Director), Walter Wanger (Producer), James H. Street (Novel), Lionel Wiggam (Additional Dialogue), Milton Carruth (Editor), Alan Le May (Screenplay)
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studio: Walter Wanger Productions, Universal International Pictures
Runtime: 109 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Aug 25, 1948
IMDb: 4.6
