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The Legend of 1900

An epic story of a man who could do anything... except be ordinary
Oct 28, 1998 · 2h 50m
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Drama
Music

PLOT

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.

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CAST

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
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
IT
Budget
$9,000,000
Revenue
$21,057,208
Production
Medusa Film, Sciarlò
Country
IT

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