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 (Ward Bond) and a Native American gentleman (Boris Karloff). The abolitionist's daughter (Susan Hayward) is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher (Van Heflin) when her fiance (Whitfield Connor), a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister (Julie London). 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.
Van Heflin | Keith Alexander | |
Susan Hayward | Morna Dabney | |
Boris Karloff | Tishomingo | |
Julie London | Aven Dabney | |
Ward Bond | Hoab Dabney | |
Richard Long | Bruce Dabney |
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