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Knickerbocker Holiday

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

Description: 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.

Genres: Music, Comedy, History

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Budget: $0 | Revenue : $0

Runtime: 85 minutes

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Nelson Eddy

Played Brom Broeck

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Charles Coburn

Played Peter Stuyvesant

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Constance Dowling

Played Tina Tienhoven

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Ernest Cossart

Played Tienhoven

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Shelley Winters

Played Ulda Tienhoven

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Johnnie Davis

Played Tenpin

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Percy Kilbride

Played Schermerhorn

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Otto Kruger

Played Roosevelt

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Fritz Feld

Played Poffenburgh

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Richard Hale

Played Tammany

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Carmen Amaya

Played Gypsy Dancer

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Irving Bacon

Played Peter Van Stoon

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Charles Judels

Played Renasaler

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Ferdinand Munier

Played De Pyster

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Glenn Strange

Played Big Muscle

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Percival Vivian

Played De Vries

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