Tap Roots [30665] Released: 1948-08-25 Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 Profit: $0 Runtime: 109 mins Popularity: 1.6822 Vote Average: 6.4 Vote Count: 9 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 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. Cast [39] Van HeflinKeith Alexander Susan HaywardMorna Dabney Boris KarloffTishomingo Julie LondonAven Dabney Whitfield ConnorClay MacIvor Ward BondHoab Dabney Richard LongBruce Dabney Arthur ShieldsReverend Kirkland Griff BarnettDr. MacIntosh Sondra RodgersShellie Dabney Ruby DandridgeDabby Russell SimpsonBig Sam Dabney Gregg BartonCaptain John BeckRefugee William ChalleeSergeant Harry CordingLeader Jack DavisMilitia Captain Dick DickinsonField Hand William HaadeMob Leader Jonathan HaleGen. Johnston George "Spike" HamiltonQuint Shep HoughtonOrderly John James George J. LewisConfederate Elmo LincolnSergeant Kay MedfordCaller Monte MontaguePiroqueman Helen Mowery Bill NeffLieutenant Robert A. O'NeilCropper Keith RichardsLieutenant Jack ShuttaCarpenter Arthur SpaceCaller Henry VroomArtillery Gunner Frank WhiteCorporal Joe WhiteheadPrinter Hank WordenCropper Jack WorthConfederate Charles FlynnMurphy Trailers Tap Roots on TNT advert bumper (1990)