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Release Date:
August 25, 1948
Original Title:
Tap Roots
Alternate Titles:
Das Tal der Leidenschaften
Le sang de la terre
Raíces de pasión
Genres:
Drama | War | Western
Production Companies:
Universal International Pictures
Walter Wanger Productions
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR
Runtime: 109
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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Additional Dialogue:
Lionel Wiggam
Art Direction:
Frank A. Richards
Costume Design:
Yvonne Wood
Director:
George Marshall
Director of Photography:
Lionel Lindon
Winton C. Hoch
Editor:
Milton Carruth
Makeup Artist:
Bud Westmore
Novel:
James H. Street
Original Music Composer:
Frank Skinner
Producer:
Walter Wanger
Production Design:
Alexander Golitzen
Screenplay:
Alan Le May
Set Decoration:
Russell A. Gausman
Ruby R. Levitt
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