Knickerbocker Holiday
Knickerbocker Holiday
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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Richard Hale
as Tammany
Irving Bacon
as Peter Van Stoon
Charles Coburn
as Peter Stuyvesant
Johnnie Davis
as Tenpin
Ernest Cossart
as Tienhoven
Shelley Winters
as Ulda Tienhoven
Percy Kilbride
as Schermerhorn
Otto Kruger
as Roosevelt
Glenn Strange
as Big Muscle
Nelson Eddy
as Brom Broeck
Constance Dowling
as Tina Tienhoven
Fritz Feld
as Poffenburgh
Carmen Amaya
as Gypsy Dancer
Charles Judels
as Renasaler
