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Knickerbocker Holiday

1944, Movie, NR, 85 mins

Knickerbocker Holiday: Review

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 ... read more leave a comment