Tap Roots
Overview
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. A pocket-edition GONE WITH THE WIND, TAP ROOTS is way too ambitious for its smallish budget. Modern viewers can have fun spotting such anachronisms as the Southern troops' use of dynamite--several years before it was invented.
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Main Cast & Crew:
George Marshall - Director
Van Heflin
Susan Hayward
Boris Karloff
Julie London
Whitfield Connor
Ward Bond
Richard Long
Arthur Shields
Griff Barnett
Sondra Rodgers
Details
- Format: Blu-ray
- Run Time: 109
- Color Format: Color
- UPC: 191329161098
- Genre: DRAMA
- Rating: PG (MPAA)
- Release Date: April 2021
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