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Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)

Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)

Comedy Music History

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

Release Date: 1944, March 17
Directors: Harry Joe Brown
Countries: United States of America
Production: Producers Corporation of America, Producers Corporation of America
Cast: Richard Hale, Irving Bacon, Charles Judels, Otto Kruger, Shelley Winters, Glenn Strange, Fritz Feld, Charles Coburn, Johnnie Davis, Ferdinand Munier, Nelson Eddy, Carmen Amaya

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 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.

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