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Knickerbocker Holiday

5.0 85 mins Music   Comedy   History   1944
Producers Corporation of America  
Director(s): Harry Joe Brown

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.

Casts of Knickerbocker Holiday

Nelson Eddy

as Brom Broeck

Charles Coburn

as Peter Stuyvesant

Constance Dowling

as Tina Tienhoven

Ernest Cossart

as Tienhoven

Shelley Winters

as Ulda Tienhoven

Johnnie Davis

as Tenpin

Percy Kilbride

as Schermerhorn

Otto Kruger

as Roosevelt

Fritz Feld

as Poffenburgh

Richard Hale

as Tammany

Carmen Amaya

as Gypsy Dancer

Irving Bacon

as Peter Van Stoon

Charles Judels

as Renasaler

Ferdinand Munier

as De Pyster

Glenn Strange

as Big Muscle

Percival Vivian

as De Vries

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