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Tap Roots

Tap Roots (1948)

When she lost her lover...her sister gained one!

Radar 34Slightly unusualUS:NR1h 49mDrama · War · Western

The Radar read

A quieter title still finding its audience, though the rating rests on a thin sample, so treat it as provisional.

Synopsis

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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Radar score34/100
Quality signal64/100
Audience rating6.9
Votes counted11
Trust signalSlightly unusual

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