Knickerbocker Holiday
5.2
“WHEN TIMES SQUARE WAS FULL OF INDIANS...LITTLE OLD NEW YORK WAS FULL OF FUN!”
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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Cast
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Nelson Eddy
Brom Broeck
Known for
Make Mine Music
Phantom of the Opera
Charles Coburn
Peter Stuyvesant
Known for
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The Lady Eve
Maxwell Anderson
Harry Joe Brown
Constance Dowling
Tina Tienhoven
Known for
Black Angel
Kurt Weill
Ernest Cossart
Tienhoven
Known for
Angel
The Great Ziegfeld
Thomas Lennon
Known for
17 Again
Memento
Shelley Winters
Ulda Tienhoven
Known for
Lolita
The Night of the Hunter
David Boehm
Johnnie Davis
Tenpin
Known for
I Love to Singa
Rowland Leigh
Harry Joe Brown Director · Rowland Leigh Screenplay David Boehm Screenplay
United States release March 17, 1944 · Produced in United States · Production United Artists Pictures
Production
Producers Corporation of America
Production
United Artists Pictures
Production · Distribution
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · March 17, 1944
Theatrical
Denmark
November 3, 1947
Hungary
December 23, 1947
Mexico
March 8, 1946
Portugal
January 14, 1946
Spain
November 21, 1946 · Madrid
Sweden
November 8, 1944
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