Movie

Tap Roots (1948)

• NR
• August 25, 1948
• 1h 49m

• Drama
• War
• Western

“When she lost her lover...her sister gained one!”

Overview

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.

Director

George Marshall

Writers

James H. Street, Alan Le May

Starring

Van Heflin, Susan Hayward, Boris Karloff