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    Richard Long

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    Bruce Dabney

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    Tap Roots 1948 POSTER

    Tap Roots

    1948

    English

    6.5

    4

    83%

    83%

    civil war

    Drama

    mississippi river

    Romance

    union

    War

    Western

    George Marshall George Marshall Director Richard Long Richard Long as Bruce Dabney William Challee William Challee as Sergeant Elmo Lincoln Elmo Lincoln as Sergeant Helen Mowery Helen Mowery as (uncredited)
    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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