Knickerbocker Holiday

Mar 17, 1944

1h 25m

★ 5.0

WHEN TIMES SQUARE WAS FULL OF INDIANS...LITTLE OLD NEW YORK WAS FULL OF FUN!

Overview

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.

Genres

Music

Comedy

History

Production Companies

Producers Corporation of America

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Cast

Brom Broeck

Nelson Eddy

Peter Stuyvesant

Charles Coburn

Tina Tienhoven

Constance Dowling

Tienhoven

Ernest Cossart

Ulda Tienhoven

Shelley Winters

Tenpin

Johnnie Davis

Schermerhorn

Percy Kilbride

Roosevelt

Otto Kruger

Poffenburgh

Fritz Feld

Tammany

Richard Hale

Gypsy Dancer

Carmen Amaya

Peter Van Stoon

Irving Bacon

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