Released:
1948-08-25

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

Runtime:
1h 49min

Genre:
Drama, War, Western

• Cast:
• 
  Van Heflin
  as
  Keith Alexander
• 
  Susan Hayward
  as
  Morna Dabney
• 
  Boris Karloff
  as
  Tishomingo
• 
  Julie London
  as
  Aven Dabney
• 
  Whitfield Connor
  as
  Clay MacIvor