Tap Roots

Name: Tap Roots
Genre: drama, war, western
Released: 1948
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Van Heflin, Susan Hayward, Boris Karloff, Julie London, Whitfield Connor

Tap Roots (1948) — drama, war, western film. Directed by George Marshall. Starring Van Heflin, Susan Hayward, Boris Karloff, Julie London.

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Story Analysis

A farmer's moral journey from conscripted soldier to leader of a multi-ethnic resistance against Confederate oppression.

Drama, War, Western · 6.9/10 · 109 min · 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.