Tap Roots

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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  Van Heflin

  Keith Alexander
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  Susan Hayward

  Morna Dabney
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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

  Dr. MacIntosh
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  Ruby Dandridge

  Dabby