Knickerbocker Holiday

Knickerbocker Holiday

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

NR 1944 · 85 min · ★ 5.8 · Music, Comedy, History

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 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, 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, whose sister Ulda happens to be dating his best friend, Ten Pin. After Stuyvesant's men toss Broeck in jail on a trumped-up charge, Stuyvesant sets his sights on winning Tina's affections.

Directed by Harry Joe Brown · Written by Harold Goldman

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Nelson Eddy Brom Broeck
Charles Coburn Peter Stuyvesant
Constance Dowling Tina Tienhoven
Ernest Cossart Tienhoven
Shelley Winters Ulda Tienhoven
Johnnie Davis Tenpin
Percy Kilbride Schermerhorn
Otto Kruger Roosevelt
Fritz Feld Poffenburgh
Richard Hale Tammany
Carmen Amaya Gypsy Dancer
Irving Bacon Peter Van Stoon

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