Knickerbocker Holiday (1944) — comedy, history, music film. Directed by Harry Joe Brown. Starring Nelson Eddy, Charles Coburn, Constance Dowling, Ernest Cossart. This page maps 8 characters and 10 relationships between them as an interactive character network.
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A governor's authoritarian rule clashes with a fearless publisher's journalism and a complex romantic pursuit.
Comedy, History, Music · 5.8/10 · 85 min · 1944
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.
