“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.
George Marshall
Walter Wanger
Alan Le May
Lionel Lindon
Frank Skinner
Van Heflin
Keith Alexander
Susan Hayward
Morna Dabney
Boris Karloff
Tishomingo
Julie London
Aven Dabney
Whitfield Connor
Clay MacIvor
Ward Bond
Hoab Dabney
Richard Long
Bruce Dabney
Arthur Shields
Reverend Kirkland
Griff Barnett
Dr. MacIntosh
Sondra Rodgers
Shellie Dabney
Ruby Dandridge
Dabby
Russell Simpson
Big Sam Dabney
... and 27 more
Tap Roots on TNT advert bumper (1990)
Trailer • YouTube
Walter Wanger Productions
Universal International Pictures