Knickerbocker Holiday

The original play lasted about six months on Broadway and never captured the public's imagination, despite its smash hit "September Song" (sung by Walter Huston onstage and by Charles Coburn here). Set in the 1650s in Nieuw Amsterdam (New York), the story opens with the arrival of Pieter Stuyvesant (Coburn), the new governor, who immediately establishes his reputation for iron will by suggesting that the town celebrate his landing with a hanging. Nominated as the doomed man is Brom Broeck (Nelson Eddy), a newspaper publisher who campaigns against the corrupt men who run the city and who now intend to hang him, but can't come up with a good reason to do so. Brom rom...