This article is about the 1948 period film. For other uses, see Taproot (disambiguation).
Tap Roots
Original lobby card
Directed by
George Marshall
Written by
Alan Le May Lionel Wiggam
Based on
Tap Roots by James H. Street
Produced by
Walter Wanger
Starring
Van Heflin Susan Hayward Boris Karloff Julie London
Cinematography
Winton C. Hoch Lionel Lindon
Edited by
Milton Carruth
Music by
Frank Skinner
Production company
Walter Wanger Productions
Distributed by
Universal Pictures
Release date
August 25, 1948 (1948-08-25)
Running time
109 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$2,118,688[1][2]
Box office
$3,293,658[1]
Tap Roots is a 1948 Technicolor Western war film set during the American Civil War. It is very loosely based on the true life story of Newton Knight, a farm owner who attempted to secede Jones County from Mississippi.[3]
Made by Walter Wanger Productions and Universal Pictures, it was directed by George Marshall and produced by Walter Wanger from a screenplay by Alan Le May, based on the 1942 novel Tap Roots by James H. Street, with additional dialogue by Lionel Wiggam. The original music was by Frank Skinner and the cinematography by Winton C. Hoch and Lionel Lindon.
The film stars Van Heflin and Susan Hayward with Boris Karloff, Julie London, Whitfield Connor, Ward Bond and Richard Long. Karloff plays a Choctaw Indian.[4][5]
A radio version of Tap Roots, with Van Heflin, Susan Hayward and Richard Long reprising their film roles, was broadcast by the Lux Radio Theatre on September 27, 1948.
^ abMatthew Bernstein, Walter Wagner: Hollywood Independent, Minnesota Press, 2000 p444
^Or $.5 million – see Variety, 18 February 1948, p. 14
^Stephen Jacobs, Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster, Tomahawk Press 2011 p 324
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"'Tap Roots,' story of Civil War, at Loew's Criterion--Two other films arrive". The New York Times. August 26, 1948.
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"'Tap Roots' now at the Regent". The Battle Creek Enquirer and News. October 24, 1948.
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