Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)
1h 25m
Running Time
March 17, 1944Release Date
Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)
1h 25m
Running Time
March 17, 1944Release Date
Plot.
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 (Charles Coburn) 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 (Nelson Eddy), 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 (Constance Dowling), whose sister Ulda (Shelley Winters) happens to be dating his best friend, Ten Pin (Johnnie "Scat" Davis). 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 & Crew.
Nelson Eddy
Brom Broeck
Charles Coburn
Peter Stuyvesant
Constance Dowling
Tina Tienhoven
Ernest Cossart
Tienhoven
Shelley Winters
Ulda Tienhoven
Harry Joe Brown
Director
Johnnie Davis
Tenpin
Percy Kilbride
Schermerhorn
Maxwell Anderson
Writer
Kurt Weill
Writer
Otto Kruger
Roosevelt
Thomas Lennon
Writer
Fritz Feld
Poffenburgh
Richard Hale
Tammany
David Boehm
Writer
Rowland Leigh
Writer
Carmen Amaya
Gypsy Dancer
Irving Bacon
Peter Van Stoon
Charles Judels
Renasaler
Ferdinand Munier
De Pyster
Glenn Strange
Big Muscle
Percival Vivian
De Vries
Werner R. Heymann
Original Music Composer
Walter Plunkett
Costume Design
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Knickerbocker Holiday is a 1944 American musical film directed by Harry Joe Brown and starring Nelson Eddy, Charles Coburn and Constance Dowling. It is based on the musical play of the same title set in the 17th century colony of New Amsterdam. The film's sets were designed by the art director Bernard Herzbrun. The music by Werner R. Heymann was nominated for an Oscar for best motion picture score.