Tap Roots
6.5
“When she lost her lover...her sister gained one!”
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.
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Cast
39 people
Van Heflin
Keith Alexander
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Susan Hayward
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Boris Karloff
Tishomingo
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Julie London
Aven Dabney
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Whitfield Connor
Clay MacIvor
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Ward Bond
Hoab Dabney
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Richard Long
Bruce Dabney
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Arthur Shields
Reverend Kirkland
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Griff Barnett
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Criss Cross
Sondra Rodgers
Shellie Dabney
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Ruby Dandridge
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Russell Simpson
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George Marshall Director · Alan Le May Screenplay James H. Street Author
Worldwide gross $3.3M · Budget $2.1M · United States release August 25, 1948
Box office
Budget
$2,118,688
Worldwide gross
$3,293,658
Gross vs. budget
1.6×
Production
Walter Wanger Productions
Production
Universal International Pictures
Production
Universal Pictures
Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · August 25, 1948
Theatrical
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