The Legend of 1900

The Legend of 1900

An epic story of a man who could do anything... except be ordinary

R 1998 · 170 min · ★ 8.2 (2K) · Drama, Music

Musician Max Tooney goes to sell his prized Conn trumpet to a music shop, where he plays the instrument one last time. The shopkeeper recognises the song as one on a record matrix he found and asks who the piece is by. Tooney tells the story of an infant found abandoned in the first class dining room of the four-stacker ocean-liner SS Virginian on 1 January 1900. Danny Boodman, a coal-man from the boiler room, names the boy Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900, after himself, the fruit crate the boy was found in, and the year, and raises him as his own.

Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore · Written by Alessandro Baricco

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Tim Roth Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred '1900'
Pruitt Taylor Vince Max Tooney
Mélanie Thierry The Girl
Bill Nunn Danny Boodmann
Gabriele Lavia Farmer
Clarence Williams III Jelly Roll Morton
Peter Vaughan 'Pops', the Shopkeeper
Niall O'Brien Harbor Master
Alberto Vazquez Mexican Stoker
Luca De Luigi Neapolitan Stoker
Femi Elufowoju Jr. Black Stoker
Nigel Fan Chinese Stoker

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