Knickerbocker Holiday

US (1944): Musical/Comedy

In l650s New Amsterdam, newspaper publisher Brom Broeck (Nelson Eddy) is jailed for printing controversial items about the governor, Peter Stuyvesant (Charles Coburn). While the publisher is in jail, Stuyvesant makes a play for his sweetheart (Constance Dowling). A fine adaptation of the Maxwell Anderson/Kurt Weill musical comedy based on a Washington Irving story. Only three songs survived from the Broadway production to the screen version of Kickerbocker Holiday. Besides the well known "September Song," the other two were "The One Indispensable Man" and "There's Nowhere To Go But Up." New songs were written for the film by Jule Styne and a quartet of lyricists. Harry Joe Brown directs a cast that also includes Ernest Cossart, Shelley Winters (in only her second credited role), Johnnie Davis, Percy Kilbride, Otto Kruger and Fritz Feld. (Producers Corp. of America/UA) (amctv.com)

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