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Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)

Name: Knickerbocker Holiday
Director: Harry Joe Brown
Genre: Music, Comedy, History
Released: 1944-03-17
Duration: 1 h 25 min
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Nelson Eddy, Charles Coburn, Constance Dowling, Ernest Cossart, Shelley Winters

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

TMDB 5.81h 25mMusic Comedy History

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Plot Summary

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.