Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)
Knickerbocker Holiday
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.
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as Brom Broeck
as Peter Stuyvesant
as Tina Tienhoven
as Tienhoven
as Ulda Tienhoven
as Tenpin
as Schermerhorn
as Roosevelt
as Poffenburgh
as Tammany
as Gypsy Dancer
as Peter Van Stoon
as Renasaler
as De Pyster
as Big Muscle
as De Vries
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