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Tap Roots (1948)
Directed by George Marshall
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.
Rated NR | Length 109 minutes
Actors
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 | 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 | Charles Flynn