Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)

The wild and woolly early days of New York when it was still known as New Amsterdam provide the backdrop for this period musicalcomedy In 1650 Peter Stuyvesant Charles Coburn arrives in New Amsterdam to assume his duties as governor Stuyvesant is hardly the funloving type and one of his first official acts is to call for the death of Brom Broeck Nelson Eddy a newspaper publisher wellknown for his fearless exposes of police and government corruption However Broeck hasnt 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 Stuyvesants men toss Broeck in jail on a trumpedup charge Stuyvesant sets his sights on winning Tinas affections