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.
Van Heflin
Susan Hayward
Boris Karloff
Julie London
Whitfield Connor
Ward Bond
Richard Long
Arthur Shields
Griff Barnett
Sondra Rodgers
Ruby Dandridge
Russell Simpson
Gregg Barton
John Beck
William Challee
Harry Cording
Jack Davis
Dick Dickinson
William Haade
Jonathan Hale
George "Spike" Hamilton
Shep Houghton
John James
George J. Lewis
Elmo Lincoln
Kay Medford
Monte Montague
Helen Mowery
Bill Neff
Robert A. O'Neil
Keith Richards
Jack Shutta
Arthur Space
Henry Vroom
Frank White
Joe Whitehead
Hank Worden
Jack Worth
Charles Flynn