Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)
WHEN TIMES SQUARE WAS FULL OF INDIANS...LITTLE OLD NEW YORK WAS FULL OF FUN!
85 min
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.
- Release date
- March 17, 1944
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- 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
Crew
- Harry Joe Brown · Director
- Maxwell Anderson · Writer
- Kurt Weill · Writer
- Thomas Lennon · Writer
- David Boehm · Writer
- Harry Joe Brown · Producer
- Werner R. Heymann · Composer
- Philip Tannura · Cinematographer
- John F. Link Sr. · Editor
- Bernard Herzbrun · Production designer