Tap Roots

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Van Heflin Keith Alexander

Susan Hayward Morna Dabney

Boris Karloff Tishomingo

Julie London Aven Dabney

Whitfield Connor Clay MacIvor