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 | Director |
Walter Wanger | Producer |
James H. Street | Novel |
Lionel Wiggam | Additional Dialogue |
Milton Carruth | Editor |
Alan Le May | Screenplay |
Frank Skinner | Original Music Composer |
Winton C. Hoch | Director of Photography |
Lionel Lindon | Director of Photography |
Alexander Golitzen | Production Design |