Knickerbocker Holiday
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The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In 1650, Peter Stuyvesant (Charles Coburn) arrives in New Amsterdam to assume his duties as governor. Stuyvesant is hardly the fun-loving type, and one of his first official acts is to call for the death of Brom Broeck (Nelson Eddy), a newspaper publisher well-known for his fearless exposes of police and government corruption. However, Broeck hasn't done anything that would justify the death penalty, so Stuyvesant waits (without much patience) for Broeck to step out of line. Broeck is romancing a beautiful woman named Tina Tienhoven (Constance Dowling), whose sister Ulda (Shelley Winters) happens to be dating his best friend, Ten Pin (Johnnie "Scat" Davis). After Stuyvesant's men toss Broeck in jail on a trumped-up charge, Stuyvesant sets his sights on winning Tina's affections.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1944-03-17
Runtime: 85 mins
Director: Harry Joe Brown
Writer: Maxwell Anderson
Spoken language: English
Genres: Music, Comedy, History
Original title: Knickerbocker Holiday
Production Companies: Producers Corporation of America
Production Countries: United States of America
Cast
Nelson Eddy
Charles Coburn
Constance Dowling
Ernest Cossart
Shelley Winters
Johnnie Davis
Percy Kilbride
Otto Kruger
Fritz Feld
Richard Hale
Carmen Amaya
Irving Bacon
Charles Judels
Ferdinand Munier
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