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The Legend of 1900
“An epic story of a man who could do anything... except be ordinary”
8.2 / 10• 1998• 2h 50m•R• Italian
DramaMusic
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Tim Roth
Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred '1900'
Lead
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
NO
Niall O'Brien
Harbor Master
What People Are Saying
5.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Giuseppe Tornatore's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Legend of 1900 is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
