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Tap Roots(1948)
Status: Released
Date: 1948-08-25
67%
10 Votes
Time: 1h 49m
When she lost her lover...her sister gained one!
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Walter Wanger Productions
Movie: Tap Roots
Top 10 Billed 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
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Tap Roots on TNT advert bumper (1990) - Trailer
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