- HD 1080
- Runtime: 109m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: George Marshall
- Stars: Van Heflin, Susan Hayward, Boris Karloff, Julie London, Whitfield Connor
- keywords: civil war, mississippi river, union
- Production_studio: Walter Wanger Productions, Universal International Pictures
- Slogan: When she lost her lover...her sister gained one!
- The Tap Roots is featured in the top rankings of 1948
- #47 in Top Drama Movies of 1948
- #4 in Top War Movies of 1948
- #10 in Top Western Movies of 1948
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.