Tap Roots

TAP ROOTS is GONE WITH THE WIND with another cast and a good deal less success. The Civil War is brewing, and the Lebanon Valley of Mississippi is determined to remain neutral. Bond is the acknowledged leader of the area and appeals to other landowners who abhor slavery to secede from the state as an indication of their desire to remain out of the fracas. Bond and his Indian friend, Karloff, promise the fearful planters that they will strive to keep the Confederate Army away from their peaceful valley. Bond's family includes Hayward, an independent young woman cut from the same cloth as Scarlett O'Hara, London, and son Long. Karloff and Bond's father, Simpson, carv...