Tap Roots (1948)
"When she lost her lover...her sister gained one!"

Title: Tap Roots
Original Title: Tap Roots
Release Date: 1948-08-25
Status: Released
Rating: 6.4/10 (from 9 votes)
Language: EN
Genres: Drama, War, Western
Production Companies: Walter Wanger Productions, Universal International Pictures
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
Keith Alexander

Susan Hayward
Morna Dabney

Boris Karloff
Tishomingo

Julie London
Aven Dabney

Whitfield Connor
Clay MacIvor

Ward Bond
Hoab Dabney

Richard Long
Bruce Dabney

Arthur Shields
Reverend Kirkland

Griff Barnett
Dr. MacIntosh

Sondra Rodgers
Shellie Dabney