Where to Watch Tap Roots Online

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Read on for a listing of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription options - along with the availability of 'Tap Roots' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the various whats and wheres of how you can watch 'Tap Roots' right now, here are some details about the Walter Wanger Productions, Universal International Pictures war flick.

Released August 25th, 1948, 'Tap Roots' stars Van Heflin, Susan Hayward, Boris Karloff, Julie London The NR movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 49 min, and received a user score of 64 (out of 100) on TMDb, which assembled reviews from 9 knowledgeable users.

Want to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "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." .