Tap Roots (1948)

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.
George Marshall
Van Heflin, Susan Hayward, Boris Karloff, Julie London, Whitfield Connor, Ward Bond, Richard Long, Arthur Shields, Griff Barnett, Sondra Rodgers, Ruby Dandridge, Russell Simpson, Gregg Barton, John Beck, William Challee, Harry Cording, Jack Davis, Dick Dickinson, Charles Flynn, William Haade, Jonathan Hale, George Hamilton, Shep Houghton, John James, George J. Lewis, Elmo Lincoln, Kay Medford, Monte Montague, Helen Mowery, Bill Neff, Robert A. O’Neil, Keith Richards, Jack Shutta, Arthur Space, Henry Vroom, Frank White, Joe Whitehead, Hank Worden, Jack Worth
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