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Tap Roots
When she lost her lover...her sister gained one!
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.
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
- Ward Bond as Hoab Dabney
- Richard Long as Bruce Dabney
- Arthur Shields as Reverend Kirkland
- Griff Barnett as Dr. MacIntosh
- Sondra Rodgers as Shellie Dabney
- Ruby Dandridge as Dabby
- Russell Simpson as Big Sam Dabney
Details
- Director
- George Marshall
- Released
- August 25, 1948
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Genres
- Drama, War, Western
- Studio
- Walter Wanger Productions and Universal International Pictures
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 6.9 / 10 from 11 votes
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